Maybe I’m just old school, but despite the fact I use iCloud so much, I am a believer in hard backups for my devices. I don’t connect to my Mac frequently, but I still do. I also encourage my clients to consider doing so to their Macs or PCs. However, as you said, it’s a subjective matter indeed.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > On Nov 7, 2016, at 6:11 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Let me start by saying two things: > > 1. I realize entirely that my question is very subjective. > > 2. I further understand that there really is no right or wrong answer to > this. I'm asking more just out of curiosity. > > So, here tgos. > > So... now adays with so much stuff regarding Apple happening in the cloud, I > often ask myself: is there really much reason now adays to sync your iOS > device with ITunes on the mac? How many of you really don't connect your > phone to the mac unless it's absolutely necessary? > > I mean, think about it like this. You get a wallblock charger with all new > iPhones, (key word, new,) as well as iPads. OK, for iPods, I could see it, as > I don't think, unless things have changed which is highly probabal, they came > with the apple block transformer. But either way, there really isn't much > need anymore with Apple Music to sync music across your device, as music can > automatically come down to your device anyway over the ICloud Music library, > and even if you don't! have Apple Music, you still have the ICloud music > library, so if it's something where you rip a CD we'll just say, it would > still upload it to your library, provided you have things set correctly, > thereby making it appear on your iOS device. > > You really don't need to use ITunes to sync photos and videos anymore, as you > have the iCloud photo library. All purchased and rented movies as well as TV > shows are in the cloud, same goes with books from IBooks. > > You can do iOS updates usually over the air, (OTA,) so there really isn't a > need to do them from ITunes. > > OK, I get that there are those few instances like putting the device into DFU > mode and installing betas, or downgrading from betas. I also get that > sometimes, you may want to download the whole iOS OS and restore. I also get > you may want to make occasional backups locally to ITunes. But even that! you > can do ICloud backups. I mean, pretty much everything is going to the cloud. > > You even now can set it so that if you download an app or song/album from the > ITunes store on the mac, it'll automatically download to your device > seemlessly. > > I won't go into the details, but a friend of mine is having an issue where > things are downloading to his device automatically that he didn't suspect > would automatically download. Through talking to him, it's just kind a got me > thinking a bit on a totally unrelated note how necessary this really is. I > mean, for the most part, do you really have to use USB aside from those very > rare occasions, or would I be doing myself a favor to free up that USB port > for something more valuable like a flash drive, or even better, maybe my > braille display, etc. > > Chris. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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