It just works

I moved from PC to Mac in 2010 (with MacFormat being partly responsible) and I’ve never looked back. I love the Mac and it’s OS for its simplicity and synergy with its own products – “It just works”. I do feel, though, that this is becoming more questionable with the last rollout of iOS & OS X being plagued with issues. Not least with the whole iCloud timing/accessibility, but the core products: releasing iOS 8 (which was so buggy) and then Craig Federighi laughing it off at the October event with 8.1; I’m still having Bonjour issues even with the latest version.

I’ve had frustrations with Time Machine backups from Mavericks being unreadable in Yosemite – surely this was tested prior to rolling out? The Apple helpdesk advised to use the migration process, which lasted hours.

I intended on performing a clean install of Yosemite, so I verified the backups were in place and then wiped the drive during the installation process. Once all the settings had been made to log in, I wanted to choose which items to restore, but was unable