I want to be able to back up and read my text messages from my iPhone to my computer and/or my iCloud account in an organized fashion. I realize that iTunes backs up all my iPhone data, but it does not keep the text messages in a way that are easily accessible. What is available to solve this problem without paying extra money for an additional program or app? Isn't this something Apple should have thought of and made as intuitive as the iPhone, itself?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), Verbatim external Hard Drive