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A newly-proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Apple has “marked up its iCloud prices to the point where the service...

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…

  • Thann@lemmy.mlEnglish
    43·
    10 months ago

    What!? the company that weaponizes vendor-lockin the most is overcharging for their service!?!?!

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      9,99€ per month for 2 TB seems pretty normal to me. Google Drive is the same price iirc, and other providers have similar pricing.

      • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        That’s still expensive tho. After 10 months you could’ve just bought a 2tb nvme instead. Or a refurbished 10tb HDD.

        • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          Of course, but that’s an alternative you still have. As long as you have a computer, you can backup your phone to it just fine. The $100 for the drive also doesn’t factor in redundancy, bandwidth cost, power cost and maintenance.

          • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            You’re right about the last part, I didn’t think about that. But wasn’t the whole point of this that you can only backup your system and app data to iCloud? Can you back that up using a computer as well?

            • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              Yes, you can. If you choose to protect the backup with a password, it’s actually a more complete backup as it also backs up things like sessions, so you don’t have to login again to most apps after restoring.

              • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                So it backs up system settings, app data and stuff as well, right? But do you just need a PC for that or does it have to be a Mac?

                  • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    1·
                    10 months ago

                    Interesting. Still sucks that they don’t give you the option to choose a cloud provider for this but I didn’t expect them to just let you use your PC.

    • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Meh, they let you use whatever service you want, just not for some of the OS and app preference files - which are well under 5gb.

      If you want to back up your media and docs to Dropbox, go for it.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I could join the 5GB club as well - after maybe ten years in the Apple ecosystem, my iPhone backup is 4.1GB.

        Separately I have 28GB photos that could be synched to any service

        I buy 2TB iCloud because I have multiple devices, share the space with a family of four, and use it for cloud storage from my PC