I get more storage than I need, unlimited music, and a comical excess of games, for less than Netflix a month.
It's all seamless and I rarely think about it. Yeah I could spend Apple prices for Apple gear and not get the cloud stuff but. Why?
What services do you buy? My house is all Apple, and we’ve never bought services other than some applecare.
Because not everyone who uses Apple devices uses only Apple devices and wants to go full lock-in.
iCloud is very nice if you’re in the Apple ecosystem.
I wonder if it’ll ever allow file uploads, à la Dropbox.
It does, through the Files app (and Finder on macOS)
“they… don't see how they're angering their locked-in customers.“
yea those apple employees are so stupid they have no idea that nagging you constantly is annoying. no of course they just don’t care about other people including their customers.
although to be fair sociopathy is essentially just another form of stupidity
Re:Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
by el_dev_hell on Thursday July 28, 2022 @09:20PM
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> although to be fair sociopathy is essentially just another form of stupidity
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this?
Such things have only continued. They're adding new products and paid services at a slow but steady pace, and regularly sending me notifications to sign up for those services. When you "upgrade" the OS, you're confronted with a whole slew of opportunities to sign up for more services, with no way to just ignore these prompts. I don't blame them for doing this, but it's become increasingly grating, and turned me off of Apple in general.
Like a lot of companies, they're focused on growing their bottom line, and don't see how they're angering their locked-in customers.