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Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit (9to5mac.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit::A newly-proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Apple has “marked up its iCloud prices to the point where the service...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Does android offer free storage for cloud backups?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Drive is 15 GB

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can't iPhone users use Drive?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yes. Although it is limited in what you can back up afaik

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Wait, really? I haven’t checked that in a couple years but my Home Assistant backups are broken because out of Google drive space and it shouldn’t use anywhere near that amount - Damn, now I’m going to have to actually check it out

Edit: it was full of random crap. Good news it was trivial to clear space but now i have to figure out why some of that was there and whether is have copies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ahh, a fellow HA user spotted in the wild!

[+] [email protected] -12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So marginally better, thought so

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

3x as much is "marginally better." What world do you Apple zealots live in?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

15gb ain’t much either, and drive works on iOS to boot. So I guess earth?

Edit: Google Drive free tier: 15gb Google Drive 100gb: $2/month iCloud free tier: 5gb iCloud 50gb: $1/month

Wow, what a radical difference in offerings. I am definitely just like a battered woman

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The problem stated in the lawsuit is that you can’t use alternative backup providers on iOS, while you (presumably?) can on Android. Apple has no real competition in the device backup space, as they prevent third-parties from providing an equivalent service. (Notice the word equivalent - iTunes backups don’t count.) It’s a perfectly reasonable complaint IMO.

I say this as someone who prefers iCloud for its encryption features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That’s reasonable. I think iOS/iPadOS overall are in dire need of being more open. iPad especially since they’re at the point where they could largely replace laptops but are hamstrung by being so locked down. I still think it’s obnoxious to compare people with different opinions to domestic abuse victims

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's three times more lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

As far as I know, Android also doesn't give you the option to back up system and app data to something else than Google Drive. LineageOS gives you that option but they implemented that themselves.