Re:The weakest link by far is Apple
by reinhardt on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @06:51PM
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I hear the "if your house burns down" line often and I can't tell if it's meant literally in this context. I'd think that at least for most regular folks, if their house and everything in it was turned to ashes, the last thing they'd cry over would be their, say, iTunes collection or mostly useless email archives hoarded over the last ten years.
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Re:The weakest link by far is Apple
by wonderzombie on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @08:45PM
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It's more likely they'd be upset over losing photos of their child growing up, for instance. Or if they've digitized, say, financial records.
I mean, yeah, obviously the primary concern would be "oh my god my house burnt down." But if you can minimize the repercussions by putting digital stuff which is important to you offsite, maybe that's something to be relieved about.
It's one of several things that could happen (fire, flood, burglary, other natural disasters depending on where you live etc., lots of ways to lose all data at a location).
But yes, I mean it literally. Insurance may pay to replace your house. But a portfolio of a few years of work, the text of your half-finished novel, photographs of your children growing up, the final e-mails you exchanged with your uncle who died of cancer? No insurance money will ever replace those.