> I do wish Apple would come up with a solution to this problem though.
That wish is in the opposite direction of Apple’s brand identity: “let us handle everything for you with our white glove service [you can pay, right?]”
I would argue that it is exactly in line with Apple's brand identity.
Pretty much everybody agrees that you need to backup your cloud storage as well as your local computer, and Apple even backs up your i-devices to the cloud, and yet, there is no automated way of backing up your iCloud storage.
About a decade ago, Google initiated the Data Transfer Framework[1] that allows you to transfer data from one cloud provider to another, directly from provider to provider instead of downloading it first. It sadly appears to not have gotten enough traction to be of any use.
> Pretty much everybody agrees that you need to backup your cloud storage as well as your local computer, and Apple even backs up your i-devices to the cloud
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Apple say that you need to back up your Apple Cloud data.
> I would argue that it is exactly in line with Apple's brand identity.
I’m not following you. Can you explain what you mean by that?
> I’m not following you. Can you explain what you mean by that?
Usually when Apple does something, they make it so it "just works" and usually stays out of the way of the user. To bake iCloud backups into Time Machine would do just that, backup your cloud data without bugging you.
That wish is in the opposite direction of Apple’s brand identity: “let us handle everything for you with our white glove service [you can pay, right?]”