News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals. Parent comment

Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by Moldoteck on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @03:36AM (#37671374)
For google you were not forced to take your data, old data was not counting towards new limit
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by eitland on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:19AM (#37672202)
For me it seems to be.

I have used the free compressed photos option the whole time and one day I was suddenly many many gigabytes over limit.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by Moldoteck on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:17AM (#37672655)
hard doubt it's bc of old data. It could be a bug in the system, but most probably It's either bc you uploaded from another device/browser or bc of gmail or after the free period ended
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by eitland on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:33PM (#37694587)
But compressed images were free forever until they weren't, right?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by Moldoteck on Friday September 29, 2023 @06:53AM (#37701847)
nope, it was unlimited compressed for a specified timeframe*(for other phones) and free unlimited compressed forever for pixel 2 to pixel 5(and unlimited uncompressed for og pixel). Google didn't break their promises * Actually it wasn't about timeframe, google afaik didn't say that other smartphones will get unlimited compressed forever, just that it's free for that time
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by eitland on Friday September 29, 2023 @12:17PM (#37706391)
English is not my first language, but I am good enough that I still think I was justified to be (slightly) surprised when they started charging.
[ Parent | on HN ]