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JonG said:

While I don't necessarily agree with "Breaking Up Apple."  I will say that there are some of their practices that bear scrutiny:

• Sherlocking companies development without buying them up because you have Billion-Dollar lawyers that can squash any complaint from a small business that made an app that they charge $10 for and they make a reasonable profit.

Only going to point out, "Have you seen Apple's legal track record?"  Just saying that they don't always or even usually get their way.  Maybe I'll also mention that companies buy other companies all of the time, sometimes it is for the talent, other times it is for the IP, and occasionally it is for both.  Quite often Apple integrates a large chunk of the original companies employees, and sometimes they don't, but that is also no different from how it is done across every other industry.  Apple's success garners a lot of scrutiny for better or worse.  What I don't want to see is someone that is going to make an example out of Big Tech.  Going after the biggest fish (Apple/Google), just because they have a lot of money, which is the EU approach.)  Instead, sensible laws applicable to a swatch of the industry will be less destructive.  Also, try working with the companies to find a middle ground and elicit change.  

linkman said:

Apple is lagging behind on upping the bottom storage tier. IIRC the free tier has been at 5 GB for a full decade. With the smallest new iPhone capacity at 64 GB and iPad at 32 GB, most users won't be able to stay on the free tier very long for backups.

There is certainly a concern for Photos, but a significant amount of space used on users devices is by Apps, and those are never backed up.  Take a quick peek at Settings > General > iPhone Storage and it is likely that Apps are taking up 3-4 times the space of your photo library.

I help upgrade my extended families devices every year the biggest pain point during device migration is finding room for the device backup, and frequently that involves freeing up room due to extra long videos.  (filmed by kids using the devices)  This change is going to save people a lot of headaches (and sometimes heartaches) when needing to free up space for the reasons above.  

While I agree that it would be nice for Apple to upgrade the free tier, this is going to go a long way to helping out users unable to buy in.  

Come on Facebook, tell us how you really feel.

I've long taken an approach where I look at the overall rating distribution, examining reviews at each level, and then going out of my way to read through 1* reviews.  Picky people that experience non-starter issues are most likely to details their complaints as a 1* review, and more than once I've found issues glossed over by other more favorable reviews, that would have driven me nuts, so I passed on that product in favor of something else.

Remember, apps need to be updated before they will begin asking.  So you may not see apps ask immediately even though you have the feature enabled.