LeoMC

danox said:

music (20,000 songs)

For the money needed to buy those songs one can get 300 years worth of Apple Music and have access to unlimited music (100 milion according to Apple), including access to all new releases.

How about forcing Google to integrate my search algorithm in its search engine as an option; or maybe force Microsoft to integrate my writing processor in its Office suite; how about forcing Amazon to [also] use my servers as cloud hosting and last but not least, how about forcing Spotify to push my ads to their customers?
This is getting ridiculous; Apple ecosystem and products are not mandatory, are not essential to human social, political and personal activities (everyone can very much use a Nokia 3310 phone to communicate and a laptop with Linux to access banking apps, government sites, electronically sign documents, read the news, watch TV or a Samsung, Motorola, Huawei etc device) and Apple only has a small portion of the total market.
Just make something better and I am the first to use it (because why not use something better?)

Now I am certain some of you have not and will not read the terms of the services; here's a direct quote from iCloud legal agreement:

You acknowledge and agree that Apple may, without liability to you, access, use, preserve and/or disclose your Account information and any Content to law enforcement authorities, government officials, and/or a third party, as Apple believes is reasonably necessary or appropriate, if legally required to do so or if Apple has a good faith belief that such access, use, disclosure, or preservation is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process or request; (b) enforce this Agreement, including investigation of any potential violation thereof; (c) detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property or safety of Apple, its users, a third party, or the public as required or permitted by law.  You acknowledge that Apple is not responsible or liable in any way for any Content provided by others and has no duty to screen such Content. However, consistent with Apple's privacy policy, Apple reserves the right at all times to determine whether Content is appropriate and in compliance with this Agreement, and may prescreen, move, refuse, modify and/or remove Content at any time, without prior notice and in its sole discretion, if such Content is found to be in violation of this Agreement or is otherwise objectionable.

So: Apple is given the right to access, use or disclose (even to 3rd parties) every bit of iCloud content and is free to prescreen or modify it as it sees fit.
It's not me saying that but Apple, so stop showing unconditional support and start being a little more critical, if you want better services and/or products.

I repeat: iCloud+ is a great service - I use it, because 5 Gb is a joke - but I will never be dumb enough as to pay 30€ when I could pay 11€ for the same - more or less - service.

@chasm ;
I won't promote other companies on an Apple forum, suffice to say I'm talking about M.
Apple is able to know what is in your cloud (think about the children sexual abuse scanner - if they wouldn't been able to see your data, how could they scan it? and if you're telling me it's automated, I have a bridge to sell you).
M doesn't collect and sell my data (I'm talking about the business service, because I have read thoroughly the rules for the EU).
Apple turns over the data to law enforcement agencies, don't be a child.

But I am not here to advertise or diss one service or another - I use them both, I think they are both great and both serve their purpose - I am just here to give a thought.

I'm so glad to see so many AI users having better business ideas that the richest man in the world...
BTW, how are your twitters doing?

I have always admired Louis Vuitton for making their dumb shoppers pay a huge load of money for a LV "blue" badge; why would twitter's blue badge be any different?