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Apple Accused of Trapping 40 Million UK Customers Into iCloud Service
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Read the title, read the article and said "I bet you that the Apple white knights will be out in full force"
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Aaaaand as expected.
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Aaaaand as expected.
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They want refunds because they are too lazy to install a different cloud drive? Silly UK, still not learning from Brexit that they are not, in fact, special.
Please, show the class how to point automatic backups to my OneDrive, Google Drive, or even my NAS, instead of iCloud.
I don’t think any of my phone backups have ever been more than a few gigs.
photos messages etc. You don’t need to back up whole apps, just redownload them.
Met up with a friend the other day I hadn’t seen in years. They pay the 99 cents, but then couldn’t figure out why their phone won’t back up. They have 47+ gigs of photos. But they don’t want to pay for the 200 gig upgrade. I told them to back up to their computer then.
photos messages etc. You don’t need to back up whole apps, just redownload them.
Met up with a friend the other day I hadn’t seen in years. They pay the 99 cents, but then couldn’t figure out why their phone won’t back up. They have 47+ gigs of photos. But they don’t want to pay for the 200 gig upgrade. I told them to back up to their computer then.
Show me how to point Time Machine backups to iCloud.
Does Time Machine not allow backups to iCloud? that's actually pretty funny.
only apple has access to the private apis that let them backup in the background. other apps have to be in the foreground (no multitasking) ios will aggressively terminate other backup apps.
Recurring revenue models get priced higher by the stock market than product sales. They can create more stable cash flows. Plus, the whole lock-in thing. As long as the company doesn't make it difficult to cancel (like having no cancel button, nor customer service number), it isn't them locking you in. It is predictable bad human memory that keeps you paying for a service you forgot you had when you stopped needing it. And it is cognitive laziness / behavioral economics that keeps you from searching for alternatives after you make a decision to use a service.
I fell across this:
How to use OneDrive to store a Time Machine backup
How to use OneDrive to store a Time Machine backup | Business Tech Planet
Time Machine is a feature specific to storage in Mac OS and is quite an effective tool, ensuring data safety should your main drive data…
businesstechplanet.com
But I haven't tried it and have no idea if it actually works.
what a terrible suggestion.
this is incredibly bad for developers. the reason why a lot of apps decided to do the work to make user preferences sync across devices is because they can bet iCloud is turned on for the majority of users and 5GB is plenty for simple sync.
sorry, but the cloud is infinitely easier than any self hosted solution.
no evidence to show otherwise. they even backed down on the CSAM.
Type the below into Google and replace “OneDrive” with your other services… then report back here
how to backup iphone to onedrive
5GB was never meant to store all of your photos and videos lol
I fell across this:
How to use OneDrive to store a Time Machine backup
How to use OneDrive to store a Time Machine backup | Business Tech Planet
Time Machine is a feature specific to storage in Mac OS and is quite an effective tool, ensuring data safety should your main drive data…
But I haven't tried it and have no idea if it actually works.
Time machine, sure, one can be clever about getting it on a 3rd party cloud. How about iPhone / iPad / anything else?
Clever, but the only thing this does "automatically" is photos, and even then you need have the app open for it to do it's thing. No automatic full backups to be seen here. Wanna try again?
Agree to be honest. An iPhone is arguably unusable without using iCloud and you get an again unusable 5GB amount of storage for free forcing you to pay. There really should be a choice of providers.
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Windows, yes. I can use Backblaze to back up the whole machine, even random junk plugged into it.
I wouldn't know about android, last I used it there wasn't a comprehensive backup mechanism to speak of.