FTA: In the ruling, three Ninth Circuit judges said the plaintiffs failed to establish that it is “virtually impossible” for them to reduce their storage, or that they will inevitably be forced to pay for iCloud storage. In fact, two named plaintiffs were still on the 5GB tier. The judges added that customers have the option to turn off iCloud at any time.
I think a better argument would be to make apple let you use other cloud providers for functionality like backups, or provide some way to automatically back up locally (iTunes used to do this). Still probably won’t work in the US, but might in Europe.
but it’s manual which is usually less reliable than an automatic option. the old wifi option was reliable, and it happened every day without having to think about it. Also cloud backups now go over wifi just fine.
FTA: In the ruling, three Ninth Circuit judges said the plaintiffs failed to establish that it is “virtually impossible” for them to reduce their storage, or that they will inevitably be forced to pay for iCloud storage. In fact, two named plaintiffs were still on the 5GB tier. The judges added that customers have the option to turn off iCloud at any time.
I think a better argument would be to make apple let you use other cloud providers for functionality like backups, or provide some way to automatically back up locally (iTunes used to do this). Still probably won’t work in the US, but might in Europe.
I still use iTunes to back up locally on my PC. On the Mac it looks like that functionality is embedded in finder now.
yeah but it’s manual over USB right? You used to be able to set it to back up automatically once per day over wifi.
Not sure I never tried a local wifi backup. USB is generally faster and more reliable.
but it’s manual which is usually less reliable than an automatic option. the old wifi option was reliable, and it happened every day without having to think about it. Also cloud backups now go over wifi just fine.