I don't understand. My phone died a couple of weeks ago. My new one came; I signed in my account, moved the old SD card over to the new phone, and everything I had on my old phone was now on my new phone. I did not even need to connect it to my PC at all. To me this is better than having to always connect my phone to a PC to back it up.
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SD card is not a backup. How do you back up all your app settings, app data? It's not all on an SD card. You don't need a PC to backup, but there's no solid backup solution right now on Android. Even the cloud backup is not really effective as it seems to only back up your system settings. I don't like iCloud either, but at least I found that the backups on my PC contain my app data.
To me the best solution is Titanium Backup, but it's such a power user tool and requires root that it won't work for everyone. But if we're going to compare out of the box solutions, Apple wins this one.
Agreed. But I would take that over the alternative (no file manager without jailbreak).
I get what you mean, but in regards to the file manager, I don't find a file manager to be critical in iOS. It would be critical if we could download and move files around. My use in Android typically only involves a file manager for tweaking. My top uses right now in file manager are:
1) Copying and messing with init.d files
2) Sideloading apps
3) Copying custom settings for 3rd party apps. For example, this morning I was downloading user settings for color calibration curve for my Nexus 5.
Even the average Joe wouldn't need a file manager on Android.