Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit
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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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What!? the company that weaponizes vendor-lockin the most is overcharging for their service!?!?!
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.
That's still expensive tho. After 10 months you could've just bought a 2tb nvme instead. Or a refurbished 10tb HDD.
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.
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?
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.
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?
Yes, it backs up pretty much everything, including app data. Apps themselves will need to redownload from the App Store though, just like with iCloud backups.
Apple officially supports device backups on Macs (integrated into Finder) or Windows via this app: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9np83lwlpz9k
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.
And you’re able to do that…
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.
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