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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…

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 years ago

    The lawsuit isn’t really about the 5 GB free tier, but about being able to use system services like device backups with other cloud providers.

    Poorly written headline.

    • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      The actual article headline

      Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud’s 5GB limit and iPhone backup restrictions

  • Thann@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

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

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 years 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
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        3 years 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
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          3 years 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.

  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I read this article, because it’s absurd to make a class action lawsuit about the free tier remaining at only 5GB. Apple has the right to give as much or little away for free.

    Instead, the lawsuit is about something a lot more lawsuit worthy: The fact that you cannot backup your iPhone with other cloud service providers, providing an unfair advantage to iCloud. This should definitely be illegal.

    Additionally, can we have a lawsuit over excessive storage markups (that are over ~2x the gross margin of the device)? This is also basically pure profit.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I hate this the most about my iPhone. I’m currently on my 3rd Apple device, but you don’t get more storage every time you buy one. So if you have an iPhone and an iPad you’re still stuck with 5gb, and it’s shared with you backups and your cloud-based apps like photo sync, message sync. That 5gb is gone pretty quick.

    It’s easy enough to sync photos elsewhere, but not messages. So the $1/mo storage upgrade becomes really attractive.

    I hope this opens up their backup service but I doubt it.