[jws]

The Photos upgrade for "moments" is quite nice, assuming you use Photos to store your photos.

The storage upgrade where they can remove forgotten debris files and then migrate your unused files to the cloud is great for most people.

I realize most HN readers have already drawn their saber and are 2/3rds over the gunwale at my suggestion that a computer make a decision about the disposition of a file, but this one feature is going to reduce my "friends and family tech support debt" by about 75%. A couple of clicks and I can fix their full computer. In the process of that I have quietly gotten them to backup their documents to the cloud so when I get the "my computer won't turn on" call I don't have to spend hours extracting and recovering their hard drive because they NEVER backup. Thanks to "apps", I can finally convince people that paying $1.99/mo for cloud storage isn't some evil plan to loot the world economy. People are used to small payments for computer services.

[rbl]

"In the process of that I have quietly gotten them to backup their documents to the cloud […]"

Are you saying you are/would be storing someone else's data "in the cloud" without their consent/knowledge?

[CJefferson]

The 'migrate to the cloud' is no good for backups -- it doesn't put files in the cloud which you actually use regularly!

[matt4077]

I'm pretty sure it does. It just doesn't replace the local copy with a reference to the cloud version. Otherwise it could't synchronize between computers.

[mhurron]

No sync service is good for backing up. Delete it locally and it's deleted remotely, same with making edits to a file.

[toomuchtodo]

Dropbox. I disable syncing for certain files, and its only stored in Dropbox. I need access again without using a web browser? I turn on syncing for that folder again and the files are synced back locally within a few seconds to minutes.

I priced out getting an external SSD drive ($300 for 1TB). Its cheaper for me to just buy a year of Dropbox at a time (1TB @ $100/year if paid annually).

https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/113

[totalrobe]

Why would you compare the cost of an SSD in this case?

You can get a good 1TB HDD for $50.

[toomuchtodo]

A mechanical drive is more likely to fail if exposed to shock or magnetic fields; unless its safely encased in a rack in a datacenter, its not an acceptable form of data storage.

[michaelmrose]

Citation needed. You don't need for the drive to never ever go bad you just need for primary and backup not to fail in the time window required to replace the drive. Most of planet earth relies primarily on magnetic storage including people outside the data center.

[michaelmrose]

If you use a filesystem that checksums you will know if the drive is likely bad and wont lose data unless local and backup go bad within the window required to get a replacement for whichever died. See zfs.

If your proposed backup solution is only used for periodic backups and isn't in constant heavy use 2 $50 1tb drives in raid1 would be quite secure against data loss and last years and for a bonus would be unlikely to be compromised by hackers or mined by the nsa for signs you are a terrorist.

If you project replacing the drives every 5 years your annual cost could be $20 and your up front cost no higher than dropbox. Its even entirely likely that you could get by with a single drive for a annual cost of $10.

[merb]

well I also didn't tought bad about MacOS sierra and I'm a developer. What I really hated was iOS 10. I mean after ~9 years they move the goddamit camera to the lockscreen right side, so that I open the camera since I always "played" with the lockscreen before and that always stresses me. Also why should I want to access everything from the lockscreen? this is just stupid. UX changes that do more harm than good.

Edit: Oh and Clock Sleep timer swipe delete, doesn't work anymore. If I put a Clock into "sleep" and than still woke up after 5 minutes I can't remove the sleeped timer.

[nicholassmith]

They've changed the behaviour of the camera on the lockscreen previously. It's just an adaptation.

[eridius]

Press firmly (a.k.a. 3D touch) on the timer on your lock screen to get at the options.

[merb]

I didn't had an iphone 6 until today.

[eridius]

I was under the impression that one of the iOS 10 betas added support for getting at notification options without 3D touch on devices that don't support it, but since all of my personal devices support it I can't actually test that (and the development device I use is intentionally still running iOS 9).

[merb]

Update, yeah with an iPhone 6 it works