Logmix

I should have been a bit clearer. Your iOS devices are mobile - you may not be at home for days. iOS does indeed offer wireless backups, but only if you're at home.

And by the way, I find that downmodding that hit me appaling and a sign of unhealthy group-think.

Yes but the don't offer an option without key escrow, which was my point.

Bullshit. iOS devices have only one way to do wireless backups, and that's with the Apple cloud. Apple could decide that it only does wireless backups with a little home server that you put into your own home, but they decided against that.

Apple also could allow users to secure their cloud backups against anybody. But they decided they include mandatory key escrow by Apple itself. The mud puddle test proves that Apple and the NSA can access all your backup data.

How is that a business model "completely compatible with privacy"?

Seconded. I played around with it for a while as well - creating images in a different image editing app and then opening them in photoshop to see when the warning is triggered.

Thanks for those links. While the earlier versions for Safari (like v0.8.2.0, found here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/117) work well on Safari 5, these new versions on your Safari link do not. They crash the browser during installation.

Impressive, it's already much much faster than AdBlock.

The George Eastman House just released a informative and well produced series on photographic processes that might also be mentioned here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me5ke7agyOw&list=PL4F918844C...

Of course Apple also has Mac OS that is on par with Windows when it comes to not being a total walled garden.

And Microsoft also has Windows RT with restrictions that makes it a walled garden just like iOS.

So in the end, it all evens out between the two.

That's very well put. If you uninstall an app, all its data is gone. Unless you stored that data somewhere else of course, but the main thing is how Apple approaches data storage is not very professional or confidence inspiring.

For me this awkward storage makes it difficult to take the device seriously. I don't consider the iPad a work device, more of a device to surf the net on the couch. In Q4 2014, iPad sales were down year over year from 14M to 12M. Maybe other people are starting to think along the same lines?

The sad part is that this does not have to be that way. The iPad has more than enough resources to be a fully functional computing device.

But until Apple grows up and removes all those mandatory training wheels (can't develop equal citizen apps on the device itself and give it to anybody I like without Apple having the power to party pooping any of it), I don't consider iPad + iPhone real computers.

Maybe californians don't have a sense of ownership towards their state as much as swiss people have.

Can the firmware be updated over the internet, and can the device theoretically send sound over internet if the firmware is changed? If yes, that would be a dealbreaker for me (because, you know, crackers and the NSA).