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This morning I read about quite a good looking new to-do app for iOS. Initially I thought I might well give the app a look; then towards the end of the writeup on it it became clear it had no sync partner at all and only offered backup of its data via iTunes backup.
For me, that’s a dealbreaker straight away. As it stands right now, iTunes backup is as good as no backup at all. There are just far too many occasions when the solution to any number of issues on an iOS device (including those recommended by Apple themselves) will be to restore your device and setup as a new device (i.e NOT use any existing backup).
To my mind, any app that is intended to be used as a productivity tool has to offer a far more bullet-proof solution than that – otherwise every time you have any sort of serious issue on your device you risk having to start all over again. I don’t know about you, but with something like a task manager, I certainly couldn’t fill all my current, scheduled, and repeating tasks back in by memory in that sort of scenario.
The other – less critical – drawback with productivity apps that only backup to iTunes is that you have to connect your iPhone, Touch, or iPad to your PC regularly to sync and backup. Again, your mileage may well vary, but I’m not a fan at all of syncing any more often than I have to.
By now, with as many good and solid productivity apps as there are in the App Store, I think it’s just an extremely lame move for any app of this type to come out offering only iTunes backup. All serious apps in this category should offer an online or desktop sync/backup companion. Especially now that there are superb services like Dropbox to provide this functionality for apps on a platter.
What about you all? Are you OK with using a productivity app that only backs up to iTunes?
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