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Apple Defeats Lawsuit Related to iCloud's Measly 5GB of Free Storage
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This feels like both a bad argument from the people filing the suit, and a bad call from the judges.
Sure, you don't have to use iCloud, but Apple has absolutely tied so much functionality - including automated backups - to it that, honestly, it's de-facto required if you're going to stay in the ecosystem and expect all the features that are listed on the side of the box to work.
And, of course 5GB is really not sufficient space to even reliably back up a modern iOS device, let alone file syncing, email, photos, messages, etc. at this point.
It feels like the people who brought the suit didn't really have formulated a good argument (or even had reasonable standing - if you're using the 5gb tier it's hard to argue Apple force you to do anything), but I don't think the general gist of 'Apple is providing 5GB knowing you're going to almost certainly going to be forced to upgrade' is all that wrong.
Me and my family are all on Apple products since ~2014 (or even before). We never paid for iCloud. I opt in this year because (I) the 1st tier costs me 1€/month for 50Go and (II) it’s very convenient to get auto backup for the whole phone (except photos / videos, we are using a family plan with Google Drive for that).
But I admit that enabling iCloud by default and frequently showing a pop up because you are beyond the 5Go plan is pretty bad. But you can disable it at anytime, and there is no more pop up when you have done it.
My solution is I only back up things like contacts. Only local backups for photos and the like… I don’t want my or my partner’s genitals on a web service, no thank you