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There is something seriously wrong with their engineering vision when they can dedicate developers to adding new emoticons to iMessanger when they don't even have Time Machine backups to iCloud for MacOS.

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Note that the first is used by at least an order of magnitude more people.

I think the bigger priority should be stop adding features / taking away the ones we use for a UI refresh, and spend some serious time fixing their giant, growing backlog of bugs. macOS and iOS/iPadOS are progressively getting worse in too many ways to enumerate and some bugs have been around for many years. Furthermore, they don't appear to (or don't have time to) listen to you or I submitting a bug report, so most people don't bother anymore. It's a shame because their products have gradually become like American healthcare: more expensive and worse. I think Apple needs a new CEO who can bring prices down, and quality, durability, and innovation up.

All of my documents (macOS) are backed up to iCloud. You don't need Time Machine to do this. It happens automatically with iCloud Drive.

Having the latest version of a file online isn’t a backup.

You have some good points, however Apple has allowed (even if temporarily) third-parties to exist on the periphery to fill-in solutions. TarSnap, SpiderOak One and BackBlaze all seem like viable options. Perhaps even Carbonite too.

MacOS has built-in file versioning since Lion. Whenever you save a file, it creates a version. You can browse and restore an old version using the program that created it.

Admittedly, this only works for applications that use the API. For anything in plain text you should probably be using a git repo though.

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