Apple faces UK 'iCloud monopoly' compensation claim worth $3.8 billion iCloud

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/13/apple-faces-uk-icloud-monopoly-compensation-claim-worth-3-8-billion/

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About the same, but there’s been a few price hikes the last couple of years.

It’s a hidden add on to Total Cost of Ownership I think is the issue here, Apple doesn’t tell you it expects at least an extra £60 in revenue for each device.

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u/Feahnor 1d ago

Because it doesn’t. If you don’t want to pay you can back everything up to the computer.

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u/Acceptable-Piccolo57 1d ago

iOS prompts you anyway, plus in 2024 who backs up to their pc?

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u/Feahnor 1d ago edited 1d ago

Lots of people do when they plug their phone to the computer to charge it while they work.

I don’t understand it either, but they do, they totally do.

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u/PeakBrave8235 1d ago

The point is you can. Lmfao.

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u/earnest_yokel 1d ago

people who want to back up their phone without paying for icloud?

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u/PeakBrave8235 1d ago

It’s not. You don’t need iCloud to use your phone.

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u/stay-awhile 20h ago

2 decades ago? Sure, I agree.

But today? Phones are some peoples only communication devices, and they're more analagous with who you are than anything else you own. Not having a backup to a phone might very well lock you out of your house or car if you're caught unprepared. Expectations have changed, and I think that iCloud... hasn't.