Re:I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
by mastazi on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:39PM
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Whenever I try to get iCloud actually working [1] I kind of wish Apple was actually interested in owning my data ;-)
Rants apart, this fact:
> Apple makes money selling you hardware. Google makes money selling you to advertisers.
has a direct consequence: cloud services made by Apple are generally inferior compared to those made by Google[2].
Now of course if you value privacy over everything you might prefer to save your data locally rather than in the cloud, but I have too many devices lost or broken to go that way.
Rants apart, this fact:
> Apple makes money selling you hardware. Google makes money selling you to advertisers.
has a direct consequence: cloud services made by Apple are generally inferior compared to those made by Google[2].
Now of course if you value privacy over everything you might prefer to save your data locally rather than in the cloud, but I have too many devices lost or broken to go that way.
[1] https://support.apple.com/kb/index?q=backup+could+not+be+com...
[2] http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10900612/walt-mossberg-appl...