U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by samatman on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:39PM (#39783401)

The original comment was about exporting photos, and how "Apple makes it difficult". Which they do not.

Syncing is a different story, let's see how this holds up:

If you want to sync your iPhone's photos to Dropbox, you give Dropbox permission to access the Photos library and it syncs. https://www.multcloud.com/tutorials/sync-iphone-photos-to-dr...

The company hosting that URL offers a product for syncing between various clouds, I haven't used it but it does exist. https://www.multcloud.com/download

So I guess this is another one of those things that just isn't true. Go figure.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by sneak on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:11PM (#39787113)

Not really. For Dropbox, Nextcloud, Photo Sync, et c to upload your photos, the app needs to remain open; it can't upload in the background for more than a minute or so.

This means that only iCloud can do real background syncing. If you want to upload a full camera roll to a non-iCloud service, you're in for a world of frustration. You'll have to disable screenlock and put the phone on a power cord and leave it open with the app up for hours and hours. Of course iCloud doesn't have such limitations.

No non-Apple app is allowed to do background sync, no matter what you install. They have put iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos in a privileged position.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by samatman on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:29PM (#39787206)

Hi sneak. I know your tendency to bullshit about Apple and not back it up.

Problem is I run Dropbox on my iPhone, so I know you're full of it.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by sneak on Friday March 22, 2024 @03:33PM (#39793984)

Try connecting it to a new, empty Dropbox account with a photo roll with 20+ GB in it. You’ll see what I say is true.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by mcfedr on Friday March 22, 2024 @03:56AM (#39788346)

Exporting in real time is the expectation, anything else is subpar.

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