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

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by kelnos on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:56PM (#39783607)

I do that as well (Android user, so it's pretty much the default), but aside from not having to pay Google, there isn't a meaningful difference here: it's just trading one company's propriety cloud backup for another's.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by khazhoux on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:08PM (#39783758)

There’s a giant difference. The claim is that Apple restricts other companies from providing cloud backup of photos. Google Photos proves this is incorrect.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by meragrin_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:52PM (#39784257)

> The claim is that Apple restricts other companies from providing cloud backup of photos.

No, the claim is Apple makes it difficult to bulk download/export photos using Apple software with non-Apple hardware.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by Andrex on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:03PM (#39783703)

Google's data interoperability is quite good though (Takeout). That was something Google did right 10+ years ago and I'm glad it hasn't died on the vine (and will probably see more development now, what with all this antitrust in the air).

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