August 2019 • Macworld 135OPINIONit’s still important to have reliable and trustworthy
backups on top of that.
In the past, this may have been an issue of
capacities: Macs, after all, had huge hard drives,
and iPhones and iPads relatively little storage
by comparison. But these days, you can buy an
iPhone with 512GB of storage or an iPad Pro with
a terabyte, about the same capacities offered
on most Macs. If I can back up my 512GB iPad to
iCloud, then why not my 512GB iMac? Surely, Mac
users deserve the same peace of mind of an offsite
backup of their critical files as iOS users do.