{"id":54340,"date":"2017-07-30T11:33:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T16:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=54340"},"modified":"2017-07-30T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T16:33:41","slug":"iphones-and-the-end-of-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=54340","title":{"rendered":"iPhones and the end of backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sphone4all.com\/\">Smarthones for All<\/a> section on backup and suddenly realized it&#8217;s not all that important. The book&#8217;s target users just won&#8217;t have critical data that&#8217;s not in iCloud Photos or iCloud Calendar or streamed from an Apple source. Sure, games data will be lost, but that&#8217;s manageable. The big hit is to setup data; that can be pain to redo given all the work needed to make an iPhone special needs friendly. (Note to Apple &#8211; you should read the book.)<\/p>\n<p>Weird moment. We old dudes are so used to backup being critical.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out if you don&#8217;t own anything, you have nothing to backup. Just a password written on paper.<\/p>\n<p>Duh. So obvious. Sucks to be old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing my Smarthones for All section on backup and suddenly realized it&#8217;s not all that important. The book&#8217;s target users just won&#8217;t have critical data that&#8217;s not in iCloud Photos or iCloud Calendar or streamed from an Apple source. Sure, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=54340\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54341,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54340\/revisions\/54341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}