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If your car said "You're almost out of gas, stop by your nearest Exxon station and fill up!" or "It's been 10,000 miles, drive on over to Jiffy Lube for an oil

by tbirdz 9y ago

If your car said "You're almost out of gas, stop by your nearest Exxon station and fill up!" or "It's been 10,000 miles, drive on over to Jiffy Lube for an oil change", then surely that would be an ad. It's an ad because they are advertising the iCloud service to you. It's not just that they say "Your iCloud is running out of free space", it's that they say "Your iCloud is running out of free space, buy more space here!"

threeseed 9y ago
Nobody forced him to use iCloud. He chose to. It's an install option for OSX and you can trivially disable it as well. OSX runs just fine without it.
freehunter 9y ago
You're using iCloud. Do you expect it to say "your iCloud space is filling up, buy more space on OneDrive or Google Drive here!"? My cell carrier sends me a notice every month that I need to continue paying them or I will lose service. Sure I can switch to another carrier, but if I want normal service to keep happening like it has happened in the past, I will need to send more money as per the agreement I signed. That's not an advertisement. That's a critical notification about a service you've chosen to use. It's not any different just because they offered a free trial.
- khedoros1 9y ago
  > You're using iCloud. Do you expect it to say "your iCloud space is filling up, buy more space on OneDrive or Google Drive here!"? No, I expect it not to try to sell me something at all. If I'm close to my capacity limit, it just means I need to clean some of the crud out.
SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
Your two paragraphs don't match up. It's not that they say "Your iCloud is running out of free space." or "Your iCloud is running out of free space, buy more space here!" it's that they say "sign up for iCloud and store your X!". The first two are status updates for a service that's already being used. The last is an ad.

by tbirdz 9y ago

threeseed 9y ago

Nobody forced him to use iCloud. He chose to. It's an install option for OSX and you can trivially disable it as well. OSX runs just fine without it.

freehunter 9y ago

You're using iCloud. Do you expect it to say "your iCloud space is filling up, buy more space on OneDrive or Google Drive here!"? My cell carrier sends me a notice every month that I need to continue paying them or I will lose service. Sure I can switch to another carrier, but if I want normal service to keep happening like it has happened in the past, I will need to send more money as per the agreement I signed. That's not an advertisement. That's a critical notification about a service you've chosen to use. It's not any different just because they offered a free trial.

khedoros1 9y ago
> You're using iCloud. Do you expect it to say "your iCloud space is filling up, buy more space on OneDrive or Google Drive here!"? No, I expect it not to try to sell me something at all. If I'm close to my capacity limit, it just means I need to clean some of the crud out.

SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago

Your two paragraphs don't match up. It's not that they say "Your iCloud is running out of free space." or "Your iCloud is running out of free space, buy more space here!" it's that they say "sign up for iCloud and store your X!". The first two are status updates for a service that's already being used. The last is an ad.