Chris Breen shows how it’s done. Noted because I guess I missed when Apple added the option to Migration Assistant to restore from a Time Machine backup.

My backup process is not picture perfect but I think it’s decent and, more importantly, has served me well in a couple of disk crashes. I take a full backup of my disk every couple of weeks using the inimitable SuperDuper (which really needs to update its screenshot because brushed metal?) and do daily Time Machine backups of my user account.  Using Breen’s methodology, I’d restore the disk from the full backup and then overwrite the user account with the Time Machine backup.

I know, cool story, bro, but the “eat your vegetables” posts are important, too.

Sit up straight.

Nick Surgey of PR Watch:

Organizations that received “substantial” funding from Google for the first time over the past year include Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union (best known for its CPAC conference), and the political arm of the Heritage Foundation that led the charge to shut down the government over the Affordable Care Act: Heritage Action.

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Google has a distinctively progressive image, but in March 2012 it hired former Republican member of the House of Representatives, Susan Molinari as its Vice President of Public Policy and Government Relations. According to the New York Times, Molinari is being “paid handsomely to broaden the tech giant’s support beyond Silicon Valley Democrats and to lavish money and attention on selected Republicans.”

(Via Sat Tara Khalsa.)

It’s dumb, but let’s. Come on, you know you want to.

Kantar Worldpanel reported its results for the three months to October. Apple’s strongholds include the U.S. and Japan:

In Japan, where the iPhone is now available via the country’s largest carrier NTT DoCoMo, Apple’s share hit 76.1% during October.

76 percent? That’s crazy talk. You’re crazy. It couldn’t have been that. More like Liar Worldpanel, amirite?

In the US, Apple’s October share reached 52.8%.

Those appear to be the two high water marks for the iPhone.

Kantar’s Dominic Sunnebo says:

“The good news for Apple is that this wider appeal is attracting significant switching from competitors. Almost half of iPhone 5C owners switched from competitor brands, particularly Samsung and LG, compared with 80% of 5S owners who upgraded from a previous iPhone model.”

It’s unclear from the report, however, if those are better results than Apple achieved previously with the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 4.

Kantar doesn’t specifically spell out its sample size or how it collects its survey responses other than to say it conducted over one million interviews per year in Europe alone. The data also excluded enterprise sales.

Christina Cacioppo gives a straightforward assessment of developing for Android and/or iOS based on her experience:

Today we talk about “Android versus iPhone,” but I think we’ll soon compare the iPhone to “Google Android,” “Samsung Android,” “Amazon Android,” and “Xiaomi Android,” and we’ll calculate market share between the Androids.

I wonder if much of the tech press is ready for that kind of subtlety. In practicality, the differences between platforms are more subtle than usually gets portrayed. Developers know this, serious analysts know this. Will Business Insider ever know this? I can’t say I’m hopeful, but maybe they’re catching on.

On which platform to pick, if you have to pick, Cacioppo says:

For some – especially for consumer products, because most developers know more iPhone users than Android users – that’s iOS; for others – particularly those who have developers with little mobile experience and some Java experience – that’s Android.

Preeeetty sure you’re just supposed to say one is right and the other is wrong, Christina.

(Via Benedict Evans.)

I am leaving New York City because of all of these goddamned wizards.

Add this to the list of things I wish I had written.

Greg Sterling for Marketing Land:

Apple delivered 63 (nearly two-thirds) of all mobile ad impressions [in the third quarter] while Android saw 32 percent, a decline of 6 percent vs. the previous quarter.

One set of results from one ad platform, but the point is that market share doesn’t necessarily mean what so many say it means. This is a particularly important lesson for an ad-driven company like Google.

Tell me again who won the Apple Maps Wars.

(Via Matthew Panzarino)

I join John Gruber on this week’s edition of The Talk Show to discuss Buttsgate.

Ben Bajarin:

Many retailers clearly want iPad shoppers, which is why they offer them gift cards, since they are more willing to spend.

It also explains Target’s iPad trade in of a few weeks ago. People who have iPads? Let’s get them in the store.

Just another data point for why the “developers and third parties will leave iOS because of market share” argument is bogus.