"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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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? ;-)

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.

They're wrong. You have always been free to use itunes
and back it up to your own PC or MAC etc too.

If that is the case,

It isnt.

I'm happy to use 'bug ridden bloatware'

More fool you. Completely automatic backup to the
cloud leaves anything else for dead, particularly with
the level of user like the owner of that ipad 2.