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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by dont__panic on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:41AM (#28222816)
If the goal was to make iCloud e2e, why not release both features at the same time so people can see that they're codependent (in Apple's eyes)? Without any kind of announcment or promise of e2e iCloud, we're just speculating for possible reasons why this might be OK. Might as well guess that this is going to allow Apple to give us free iCloud storage, too, while we're coming up with wishlist features.
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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by zepto on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:04PM (#28223199)
> we're just speculating for possible reasons why this might be OK.

Sure. All the statements about why it’s not ok are also just speculation.

> why not release both features at the same time

That’s not how Apple typically works. They release a feature, try to make sure it works as expected and only then release the features that depend on it.

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Re:Ask HN: What Apple alternatives are you switching to? by benhurmarcel on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:40PM (#28226808)
Then doesn't that seem hypocritical to you to defend dropping Apple right now for the imagined future possibility that all local photos could be scanned (instead of just the uploads)?
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