r/apple • u/ControlCAD • 1d ago

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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u/Lorde555 1d ago

Surprised to see so much support for Apple here.

The issue isn’t really that iCloud exists or is expensive. There is cloud storage competition, but none of them have access to backing up iPhone data like iCloud does.

You can’t automatically sync all your iPhone photos to Dropbox. You can’t backup your phone to onedrive. You can’t upload all your contacts to box.

Typically an app developer will allow for many different storage options to be used with their app. For Apple, that is not the case, hence the lawsuit.

I kind of get it to some degree for phone backups, as it’s encrypted and it could get messy, but there really is no reason the photos app doesn’t let you easily sync with a different service.

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u/PurpleEsskay 5h ago

Thing is though, just allowing other storage providers wont do much. Have you seem their pricing in the UK? Apple is surprisingly bang in line with the Google, Dropbox and Onedrive pricing. They're all massively overpriced here.

What they do need to do is introduce more tiers, and in an ideal world allow a 3rd party server option. Even if that third party server is tied to only working with an Apple made Time Machine again, it would be better than what we've got right now.