omasou

JinTech said:

StrangeDays said:

"But but but Apple doesn't innovate anymore! The CEO is a businessman!"

lol. People who say that overlook all of the hard work and improvements that goes into building the best in class personal computing devices out there. It's like they believe these devices pop out of a clamshell, fully formed. Or that, somehow, iterative development, isn't innovative. (Please see the first televisions then today's, and tell me iterative doesn't work). Ah well!

I’m sincerely curious, in what ways does Apple need to innovate on their pro laptop line? Those looking for a redesign, for what purpose?

I can see where Apple could and should innovate for the MacPro line. They should be fusing two of the M4 Ultra chips together, then fusing two of those chips together to create one of the world’s fastest desktops. Will they do that? No. But they should. 

pulseimages said:

I’ll be getting the 14” MBP Max with 64GB and 2TB SSD. I’m tired of the weight of my 2019 MBP 16”. 

spheric said:

omasou said:

spheric said:

omasou said:

spheric said:

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.

You didn’t read his comment. 

They complained Apple charges too much for iCloud. Well then use a free tier on another platform or compare prices.

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.

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."

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. 

YOU are focusing on the "disingenuous" statement.

All anyone has to do is NOT sign into iCloud. The iPhone will continue to work the same as it did before iCloud. Oh, but if you want to sync your devices, b/c you own more than one Apple device, then iCloud is the best solution and well worth the price. That said the free 5GB plan works fine and no one is forcing anyone to purchase additional iCloud storage.

"I" was focusing on the Apple’s pricing versus its offer for storage is obscene and clearly a way to gouge customers month after month. statement, which is complete BS. This person seems to never have purchased (cost) and managed (time = cost) a NAS or had to manually backup (time = cost) a device let alone multiple devices or they would very quickly learn the value of iCloud and the bargain it is.

Now if you want to fight against how Apple designed their ecosystem, then you deserver the difficulties you inherit and perhaps should consider an alternative platforms..

The point that keeps getting missed in discussions like these is that it's not about "what if I don't want to use these features?" — it's "what if I want to use an alternative service?"

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. 

Why would I want to do that? Maybe there are family licenses for services, maybe it's a better deal (see above regarding "cost of storage"), maybe it's a corporate contract, maybe I'm REQUIRED BY LAW to use authorised storage solutions and still want/need device sync — it doesn't matter WHY. 

"Move to Android" is, of course, a solution, but again: that's not what antitrust is about.