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UK group wants $4 billion payout for iCloud users
Which alternative services are they using that replace basic iCloud functionality?beowulfschmidt said:spheric said:
As above, I have not experienced this particular instance of "railroading" (not that there aren't plenty of other examples), nor have I ever had my other family members, for whom I am tech support, ever complain of it.Sure I can turn off iCloud. But if I want to use any alternative service that offers similar functionality, that's not just an initial set-up and configuration (which is to be expected), but rather, a constant fight, because Apple keeps railroading you into their own service.
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UK group wants $4 billion payout for iCloud users
Is this why this is happening in the United States?wonkothesane said:
Ok. I’ll try to make this easy:spheric said:
What's the EU got to do with this?wonkothesane said:*staring at EU* “They smell some p****y, they want a piece of the action” (Snatch)
Are you in the wrong thread, or are you just stuck in an outrage loop from ten years ago?
1. EU is currently on a roll fining huge fines, ok?
2. Uk is not in the EU anymore, don’t doesn’t profit from that, right?
3. I leave 3 up to you.Here’s some /s for you as well.Have a good one.
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UK group wants $4 billion payout for iCloud users
The person literally wrote "To say you don’t *have* to use iCloud is disingenuous. The truth is that you have to work to avoid using iCloud. And even when you set it up to avoid it, OSes revert to the default saving to iCloud after each major upgrade."omasou said:
They complained Apple charges too much for iCloud. Well then use a free tier on another platform or compare prices.spheric said:
You didn’t read his comment.omasou said:decoderring said:I agree with the UK group. Apple’s pricing versus its offer for storage is obscene and clearly a way to gouge customers month after month.
To say you don’t *have* to use iCloud is disingenuous. The truth is that you have to work to avoid using iCloud. And even when you set it up to avoid it, OSes revert to the default saving to iCloud after each major upgrade.
It’s one of the reasons why I dislike the current Apple.
100% BS. Dropbox, MS OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. still exist. Learn how to use them or as the other poster said, switch platforms if iOS is too onerous and costly for you.
The iPhone worked before iCloud and it still works w/o iCloud.
EOD, Apple provide 5GB free and for a nominal fee 50GB. 5GB is more than enough to save preferences. 50GB more than enough to save important documents, etc.
But if you want to save all of your high resolution photos and back up stupid iMessages loaded with mimes, twitch videos, etc. then learn to take lower resolution photos and clean up iMessage or shut up and pay up.
It's not up to Apple to provide endless free storage to back up all the useless cr*p people refuse to curate.
Which part of that is BS?
You responded to their post with a point you wanted to make, but you completely ignored what they actually wrote. You weren't responding to what they wrote.
They weren't bitching about free tiers or anything — they did complain about the pricing (which is pretty high, no BS), but the main point was that it is NOT easy to avoid using iCloud, because it keeps defaulting back and requires more work to NOT use it.
Which, incidentally, is what this lawsuit is actually about. On point, as it were.
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UK group wants $4 billion payout for iCloud users
What's the EU got to do with this?wonkothesane said:*staring at EU* “They smell some p****y, they want a piece of the action” (Snatch)
Are you in the wrong thread, or are you just stuck in an outrage loop from ten years ago? -
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