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Apple facing near-£3bn UK lawsuit over cloud storage ‘monopoly’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Apple is facing a near-£3bn lawsuit over claims it breached competition law by effectively locking millions of UK consumers into its cloud storage service at “rip-off” prices.

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[–] Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

except you can, by plugging it into a computer locally

That’s not even remotely close to being the same as the experience iCloud offers.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So don’t use iCloud and the photos app? What’s the problem here? There are plenty of third party camera apps and photo managers that could all use the same apis to access your directly integrated nextcloud storage the same way the photos app works. Hell, Plex offers automatic photo backups to your plex server! Y'all need to actually explain what this monopoly claim is in better detail. What am I not understanding here?

[–] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

not everyone is a pc geek with self hosted services numbnuts. you're annoying as hell

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Third party apps don’t have the ability to back up in the background all the time the way the native Photos / iCloud experience does. They need to be periodically opened to have temporary background access.

Launching the third party camera app cannot be done from the lockscreen.

What you’re not understanding is the entire point of folks’ complaints. With arbitrary restrictions put in place by Apple, there cannot be full parity in functionality between Apple’s native apps / cloud experience and those that can delivered by third party apps. While it’s possible to use third party apps, there are a bunch of little quirks and inconveniences that will ultimately drive the user back towards the native apps and spending money on Apple’s cloud service.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who's forcing them to buy an iPhone?

I mean, at some point you might want to pull the problem up by the root. The root seems to be Apple.