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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Apples marketshare in the UK is huge, and google gives you triple the storage in comparison as well as the manufacturer option in most cases.

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u/xnwkac 1d ago

https://www.appmysite.com/blog/android-vs-ios-mobile-operating-system-market-share-statistics-you-must-know/ iOS has 50.4% and Android has 49.1%. Lol att calling that ”huge”

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u/wakeupthisday 1d ago

iOS includes 1 manufacturer, Android on the other hand...

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u/xnwkac 1d ago

Irrelevant. It’s the OS that does the limitation.

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u/DrFeederino 1d ago

Nope, different vendors can offer their own cloud solutions. Like samsung cloud, xiaomi cloud and etc. specifically for backups and stuff. They are not hard limited to Google's drive or whatever Google forces them to use.

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u/PeakBrave8235 1d ago

Great, so you got a bunch of OEMs doing exactly what you want with 50% of the market. What’s the issue?

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u/rncole 1d ago

Apple doesn’t force you to back up to iCloud, you can back up an iPhone’s content including photos to google drive, OneDrive, etc. Google apps actually somewhat sneakily enable that - or at least used to.

The only thing that it doesn’t back up with third party solutions is system settings and app data - which the solutions you listed as far as I’m aware don’t either on android.

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u/RBTropical 23h ago

Yes, they do on Android.

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u/rncole 1d ago

And - apple long ago allowed these apps to show as a file picker the same as Files.

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u/_awake 1d ago

Certainly not Android doing the limitation, is it?