iCloud is so damn easy to setup. If someone wants to not use iCloud then they are tech savvy and not backing up is a choice.
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Apple Accused of Trapping 40 Million UK Customers Into iCloud Service
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Their subscriptions are down every year, so clearly there looking for new revenue streams 😏Which? Has become irrelevant about 24 years ago, only good for old ladies to do research on what toaster, hostess trolley or corby trouserpress (yes I know) to buy.
did the city point a gun at you to force you to purchase the house? no. the city advertises "check out the AMAZING free 5 cm x 5 cm space you have for your belongings!" to which you think "gee, 5 cm x 5 cm doesn't sound like a lot of space! it can't even hold my photo album binder! let me go check out Android city before dropping $500k on this place!"
Backup to computer is set it and forget it. It backs up automatically via WiFi whenever you charge your iPhone.
I am all for consumer protections, but...
As much as I dislike some of how tightly iCloud is integrated, if people are buying consumer products that they are NOT happy to buy, that is an issue with the people purchasing.
Companies being "forced to make products that people are happy to buy" makes it sound like you somehow believe all people are the exactly the same, so you should then be prepared to have all products be the absolute lowest common denominator.
What? But Pink always told me "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way"!
Apple is facing an almost £3 billion ($3.78 billion) lawsuit after British consumer group Which? on Thursday alleged that the company breached competition law by locking millions of its customers out of its iCloud service and charging them "rip-off prices."
As traps go, this seems pretty easy to avoid, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is forced to turn everything off by default and make it so the user has to turn on iCloud sync. Fine by me, but I expect some later follow up lawsuit complaining that some users lost data because they didn't turn on backup and it should have been defaulted to on by Apple. Goodness knows personal responsibility has been sued out of existence by the 2020s, though.
And I can't believe I'm this late and I only see the Family Guy version posted, so here is the classic original!
Their offerings are WAAAAAAY better but you can't tell Photos to point to your MS storage like iCloud does seamlessly. That's the problem. None of these other services have the same system access as iCloud does, hence the insidious lock in. Not to mention non tech literate people (most of Apple's target audience) won't know how to configure different cloud services.
I believe a lot of these lawsuits are driven by lobbyists with quid pro quo arrangements. In the end, this kind of tactic is common among companies that struggle to compete on innovation. Rather than improving their products, they seek to influence regulations to limit others. If a company doesn’t like the options available, customers are free to switch to alternatives like Samsung or Google.
You're referring to the apple ecosystem, right?What? But Pink always told me "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way"!
As traps go, this seems pretty easy to avoid, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is forced to turn everything off by default and make it so the user has to turn on iCloud sync. Fine by me, but I expect some later follow up lawsuit complaining that some users lost data because they didn't turn on backup and it should have been defaulted to on by Apple. Goodness knows personal responsibility has been sued out of existence by the 2020s, though.
And I can't believe I'm this late and I only see the Family Guy version posted, so here is the classic original!
Google drive had free 15GB for over 15 years now, while Apple still only gives people 5GB for free. I hope Apple loses this law suit.
This is downright false. iCloud is nowhere near a poor offering. I heavily prefer it over Google’s and Microsoft’s offerings.
It is a poor offering. I know this isn’t charity, but, for example, offering only 5 GB free when others offer 15 GB free is a poor offer by any standard. How can you not see this?
I'm referring to the iCloud service. I've managed to stay below the 5GB storage limit and not pay for storage, but it did involve turning off photo backup.
So of they lose, they should just discontinue iCloud in the UK.
Anecdotally I have usb c cables from 2016 that still work absolutely fine while I’ve had multiple lightning cables fail on me, usually with a telltale burn mark between 2 of the pins on the port.
The only type C cables I’ve had fail on me were the ones my cats chewed, and one I left in my car which got soaked when I had my car valeted.
Why is UK becoming Apples Enemy? Use your own Usb storage stick then if you don't like apples offer.
Apple doesn't have to offer any back up. This is nuts.
Apple doesn't have to offer any back up. This is nuts.
What they’re claiming is Apple making iCloud more capable and easier to integrate than competitors, they want you to be able to tell settings to backup your phone to a competitors online storage instead of only iCloud, to be able to back up your photos in the photos app to another storage service just as easily as iCloud etc.
You can use other storage services (but only for some things) but they always require manual input and workarounds. I pay for more storage because my iPhone backup alone takes up 5GB, if I didn’t want to pay for more iCloud my only other option would be to install iTunes and perform manual backups every night. Their argument is I should be allowed to backup to OneDrive or Dropbox etc.
While we are at it, Dropbox forces me to either subscribe to 1 tb of their storage for a flat fee or not at all. Can we sue them to offer additional storage tiers? I don’t mind paying less for less storage, since I don’t need that much space, and anything beyond 50 gb is just a meaningless number to me anyways.
People are all too quick to cry “unfair” when they really just mean “not to my advantage”, which is fine because not everything is supposed to be.
People are all too quick to cry “unfair” when they really just mean “not to my advantage”, which is fine because not everything is supposed to be.