Apple’s cloud is the only storage place for your valued data
Why Apple is the only place you should store those vacation pics: If you’re looking for the place to store all those photos from the break, then look no further than Apple, which John Patrick Pullen argues is the best product Apple has to offer in a piece in Time Magazine. “Despite all the bottomless storage features offered by tech giants like Google and Amazon, I default to keeping my most valuable data with Apple,” he says.
The crux of the issue boils down to the differing business models of the big tech companies — who have been catching heavy flak lately over privacy and exploiting user data. Apple, whose revenue model relies on premium-priced gadgets and electronics and doesn’t charge for data, has a longstanding commitment to privacy. It even faced off with the FBI last year on the issue. Google sells devices and ads. Amazon tries to use its gadgets to lure into buying more, when they’re not spying on you, that is. As for Facebook, which doesn’t sell its users anything at all, your prized photos themselves are the product.
As for the rest of your digital life, we may have just found the killer app, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal’s David Pierce. Notion, the life organizing app, is a one stop shop that keeps all the stuff you usually have stored all over the internet, such as account numbers, meeting notes, to-do lists, contact information, and drafts. “Notion combines many of the best features of Google Docs, Excel and Dropbox, along with lots of task-management and organizational tools,” says Pierce. While program does have a limited free tier, and costs USD 8 a month for heavy use. Pierce says that it is worth it, since it saves you from paying for all those other specialized ones.