Someone I know just broke his iPhone and somehow had no backup for it so he lost all his data going back forever, including his family photos. Screw all this AI/LLM crap they are pushing on us that nobody wants. The real revolution we need for consumer computing is safety. Our data must be safe, our transactions must be safe, our identities must be safe. And not just safe from bad actors, but from equipment failure and human error. Nobody should ever lose all their family photos or tax records for any reason, let alone because they don't understand how backups are supposed to work. I think there would be a market for SafetyFirst computing – hasn't everyone had a catastrophic data loss nightmare they never want to repeat? I don't know, maybe that kind of approach could be useful for companies dealing with ransomware hacks, too.

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@joshsusser According to Apple, it's his fault because he didn't pay for the subscription service. But I would much rather blame Apple because they made it nearly fucking impossible to back up without paying for the subscription service. They hide all the photos away and don't tell you where on the file system the files are located.

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