omasou

mbmoore said:

chasm said:

mbmoore said:

No USB-A on a Mac Mini isn’t a big deal, but it’s a huge deal on a MacBook. I just bought an M1 MacBook Air, and I like it, but there is no real replacement for my low profile USB-A thumb drive. I’m going to have to use a fragile 90 degree adapter to connect my USB-A thumb drive to one of the two USB-C ports. Not a great solution.

I have a small hub that does all that for my MBP.

Or you could switch to one of these growing number of USB-C thumb drives.

Actually, neither of those solutions works for me. On my old 11 inch Air, I leave my LOW PROFILE (1/4” protrusion) 512gb thumb drive in the USB-A port practically all the time—it’s a permanent appendage to it and it’s where I save all of my data files. Because of USB-C’s limits to minimization, there is no pathway to that size drive footprint, and I need the extra storage to avoid using up my internal drive space. The only solution is to add structural support to the adapter. I certainly use hubs and other thumb drives occasionally, but not permanently attached. In this configuration, I can pick up my Air and walk out the door without worrying about wagging a bag of attachments with me. Apple throws a monkey wrench into things when they don’t include USB-A—major oversight IMO. I know why they do it—it’s an easy way to coerce buyers into upgrading to a more expensive model, but I’m on a limited budget.

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. 

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. 

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.

mbmoore said:

No USB-A on a Mac Mini isn’t a big deal, but it’s a huge deal on a MacBook. I just bought an M1 MacBook Air, and I like it, but there is no real replacement for my low profile USB-A thumb drive. I’m going to have to use a fragile 90 degree adapter to connect my USB-A thumb drive to one of the two USB-C ports. Not a great solution.