“Apple’s new iCloud offering will not only offer iPhone users an experience untethered from iTunes, but will also be a timesaver for the company’s retail store employees dealing with customers who have never synced or backed up their devices,” Daniel Eran Dilger reports for AppleInsider.
“According to a blogger report by OneFPS, about half of the Apple Store customers who need to have their device replaced ‘have never plugged them into iTunes after the initial activation and sync,’ a fact that makes ‘Apple Store Geniuses are excited about iCloud,'” Dilger reports. “If users don’t plug into iTunes… their devices are never backed up and their iOS version is not updated. According to the aggregate analytics of a variety of developers and ad networks, most of Apple’s iOS users do regularly update their system software.”
Dilger reports, “However, it appears that a large portion of the subset of iOS users who need assistance are not using iTunes regularly, leaving their mobile devices without a current backup of their data, apps and media purchases.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]