The critical mass of Apple users would not, I would reckon.
This is why Tim "the miser" Cook has so perfectly crafted the iCloud tiers to force folks to bump from 200GB ... all the way to 2TB
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Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over iCloud Backups
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The critical mass of Apple users would not, I would reckon.
This is why Tim "the miser" Cook has so perfectly crafted the iCloud tiers to force folks to bump from 200GB ... all the way to 2TB
No, then she can pay Apple for iCloud storage.
I would like to decide by myself whom I trust. And yes, I trust a company like Proton (or my locally hosted Backup NAS) more than Apple.
Just let me self host iCloud storage on a linux box.
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What is this even about? Anyone could just connect it with a wire to a computer.
So stupid
So stupid
This is just facially untrue, the suit has nothing to do with the size of the free tier.
But it's mostly irrelevant because it's definitely gonna get tossed on statute of limitations grounds.
To be brutally honest however, wired backup can no longer do truly full device backup like it once was in iOS 8 and prior. The app would not be backed up, and photos would not be part of it if iCloud photo was used. In addition, if you had more than 1 App Store account logged in and downloaded apps from other markets, local backup won’t include any of those except your main ones, losing app data in the process. iCloud backup is the only solution that can manage multiple accounts nicely and restore to near perfection.
Hate to say it but the case holds water when you consider that Apple Devices, the application currently provided by Apple to back up and manage iOS devices on Windows, is beyond broken and has been unusable for over a year. It’s a widely known dirty little secret in the Apple community yet many are happy to handwave the issue and have made no real demands in terms of fixing its functionality
Courts' messages to Apple and other tech firms: If you make an integrated, convenient, integrated, and—most of all—popular platform, you will be sued.
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Minor correction. Wired backup does backup your photos & videos, if you have the full resolution versions downloaded, not the space-saving thumbnails.
Apps are no longer backed up, which is unfortunate.
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IMHO the lawsuit is not going to go very far anyway, but the "other options" are irrelevant in the context of the lawsuit.
The lawsuit is specifically about cloud storage, which is not relevant if you are performing local wired backups.
The data can be end-to-end-encrypted, just like in iCloud backups.
And that is the point of the class action lawsuit. She can only pay Apple for complete cloud storage backups.
I think some folks simply don't understand how encryption works.
It's admittedly a confusing and complex topic though.
Apple end-to-end encryption is special. It's end-to-end encrypted so not even Apple can access your data.
I just can't with this nonsense.
- Show me where it's the law that Apple has to even provide iCloud as a service, at all.
- Show me where it's the law that Apple has to enable cloud backups of a device, at all.
Apple provides ALL of these things, for a modest fee. $1 a month is all that is required for any basic user to backup their phone. A few dollars more for an extreme power user to back up theirs.
The fact that anyone anywhere thinks a lawsuit like this is even appropriate to be filed shows how far we've descended as a society. Entitled pricks all. Hopefully the judge throws it out and sanctions the attorneys involved.
- Show me where it's the law that Apple has to even provide iCloud as a service, at all.
- Show me where it's the law that Apple has to enable cloud backups of a device, at all.
Apple provides ALL of these things, for a modest fee. $1 a month is all that is required for any basic user to backup their phone. A few dollars more for an extreme power user to back up theirs.
The fact that anyone anywhere thinks a lawsuit like this is even appropriate to be filed shows how far we've descended as a society. Entitled pricks all. Hopefully the judge throws it out and sanctions the attorneys involved.
The current iCloud plans have not been updated for a decade (with the exception of adding higher plans for more $$$)
At least the free 5GB plan could be updated to 10GB/15GB/20GB and the other plans be updated to match iPhone storage eg 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB rather than just 50GB, 200GB, 2TB.
So many people are paying for 2TB plans because they have 210GB of iCloud storage!
At least the free 5GB plan could be updated to 10GB/15GB/20GB and the other plans be updated to match iPhone storage eg 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB rather than just 50GB, 200GB, 2TB.
So many people are paying for 2TB plans because they have 210GB of iCloud storage!
They SHOULD be sued for still offering 5GB after 15 years and forcing everyone to pay them!
Again, no. Just because the other option is less convenient or unavailable for some (minority of) users doesn't mean iCloud is a monopoly.
This lawsuit has some merit but we won’t see any changes unless the Gov’t steps in and adds this to the growing list of anti-competitive charges being leveled against apple.
I for one would love to be able to back up my devices at home to a network drive via Time Machine backups as I do my MacBook. They could do it and I’m sure that argument is in the lawsuit.
I for one would love to be able to back up my devices at home to a network drive via Time Machine backups as I do my MacBook. They could do it and I’m sure that argument is in the lawsuit.
..I'll state it again, this is not an antitrust trial; Monopoly status is irrelevant. It's a civil class-action suit.
All by design.
Apple's cost to provide the same amount of storage, indeed everyone's costs, have only gone down.
iCloud storage is a line item that looks better and better over time as they "leave it alone"