[SilverRed]

iOS is opening up to 3rd party services quite a bit in recent releases. The files app and allowing setting default apps are nice improvements which have come recently. As well as allowing 3rd parties in the find my network.

I think we could see full device backups to other cloud services later. I guess the problem is they would want to provide a specific api for 3rd parties to implement rather than trying to drop a 256GB zip file on google drive with no differential backups.

[cunthorpe]

Backups are so personal, complex, and niche that I doubt we’ll ever see Apple opening that up to third parties. Ever. It just won’t happen. Normal people don’t care about backups and Apple makes money through iCloud backups.