My neighbour Rick is right and I was wrong. I thought you could encrypt data and store it securely on the free 5 GB of space Apple gives you in its iCloud. Nope. Apple holds the master keys, not us. We can’t store stuff on iCloud that Apple can’t read. Know that if you use it.
There are many other “cloud” services, of course, but from what I’ve read, they don’t sound very private or secure to me, either. I wouldn’t count on them to back up anything really important.
iOS 6 just arrived, with Apple touting 200 new features that either work through iCloud or just don’t work at all on many Apple devices mobile devices. There’s little incentive for me to “upgrade” to the new system, even though it’s free.
Apple is becoming less and less interesting as it travels down the road it seems forced to follow, now that it’s the world’s largest publicly traded tech company. It doesn’t look good, although it will probably continue to prosper along with its competitors.
Linux may turn out to be a lot more important than MacOS X… if you like computers. Apple has moved on.
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Before you say you don’t care if Apple has access to your data, think about passwords and credit card data that may be stored or backed up there, secured by your Apple ID account. If Apple fails to keep that account away from hackers (as has happened), you might not like the result.
The more Apple makes it “convenient” to automatically share data with its cloud, the more likely you’ll forget what’s going there. Rather than suffering the strain of constant vigilence (which I’d probably fail at anyway)’ I’m just going to turn off iCloud access.