On Friday, 15 December 2017 13:08:51 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:
Everyone who has one raves about it - but doesn't seem to know much
about how they work. ;-))

In many ways that is Apple's selling point - you don't need to
understand how they work to use one. They just do.

So this one failing is unique, then? ;-)

No more than any other device would do.


By comparison Mickeysoft's offerings are bug ridden bloatware.

Quite possibly. But the two Apple using friends I asked about this problem
yesterday seemed to think the only way to backup data on an iPad was to a
'cloud' somewhere. If that is the case,

But they are wrong, perhaps they don't own computers if that is the case then they are correct, they can't back-up to anywhere other than a cloud.

I'm happy to use 'bug ridden
bloatware'

How do you back it up ?