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I never though of the red dot around on my service menu (get iCloud) to be an add. Now, I’m pissed because it is exactly that. I still have a Gb free, why is i

I never though of the red dot around on my service menu (get iCloud) to be an add. Now, I’m pissed because it is exactly that. I still have a Gb free, why is it notifying me that I need more space. I will never use that space.

grawprog 7y ago
>I never though of the red dot around on my service menu (get iCloud) to be an add Yet I see comments regularly criticising Microsoft's embedded one drive ads(not by you in particular, in general and not that I support that either). That's the insidiousness of Apple's marketing, they've sold their products as a brand, ecosystem and lifestyle so well, nobody notices every time they use an Apple device, they're essentially not only being constantly marketed to, but are walking advertisements themselves. Being locked down in a curated, walled off ecosystem controlled by the purveyor of your device is the epitome of being trapped in a bubble of constant marketing for their products. How far we've come from the days when everybody lost their shit because an os vendor bundled a web browser with their os.
- redacted 7y ago
  Apple's iCloud upsell is far worse than Microsoft's to boot. To disable: MS / Windows 10: Uninstall the preloaded OneDrive app in the standard way Apple / macOS Catalina: Reboot to recovery, mount the system drive (avoiding SIP etc), use Terminal to move a plist from the System LaunchAgents - named "followupd", in case you thought it wouldn't be hidden / obfuscated. Unmount and reboot, praying you didn't break your OS. Then delete a few preference files for System Preferences.app. Oh, and likely have to repeat the process after updates Which one would you be comfortable helping a less technical person do? And given the trajectory of macOS, I wouldn't be surprised if they close that "loophole" soon...
  - asiachick 7y ago
    I actually kind of feel like there is some false advertising around iCloud. If think the wording has changed over time but it arguably implies you get 5gig of storage when you buy an apple device. Except you don't get 5gig of storage PER device. you get 5gig of storage per account. So if you buy 4 devices (Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppleTV) it seems like you should be able to get 1 account with 20 gig of storage or 2 accounts with 10gig, etc. But if all those devices are for the same person you only get 5gig. I know the wording used to be something along the lines of "every iPhone comes with 5gig of icloud storage". The new wording is "iCloud is built into every Apple device ... Everyone gets 5GB of free iCloud storage to start"

grawprog 7y ago

>I never though of the red dot around on my service menu (get iCloud) to be an add Yet I see comments regularly criticising Microsoft's embedded one drive ads(not by you in particular, in general and not that I support that either). That's the insidiousness of Apple's marketing, they've sold their products as a brand, ecosystem and lifestyle so well, nobody notices every time they use an Apple device, they're essentially not only being constantly marketed to, but are walking advertisements themselves. Being locked down in a curated, walled off ecosystem controlled by the purveyor of your device is the epitome of being trapped in a bubble of constant marketing for their products. How far we've come from the days when everybody lost their shit because an os vendor bundled a web browser with their os.

redacted 7y ago
Apple's iCloud upsell is far worse than Microsoft's to boot. To disable: MS / Windows 10: Uninstall the preloaded OneDrive app in the standard way Apple / macOS Catalina: Reboot to recovery, mount the system drive (avoiding SIP etc), use Terminal to move a plist from the System LaunchAgents - named "followupd", in case you thought it wouldn't be hidden / obfuscated. Unmount and reboot, praying you didn't break your OS. Then delete a few preference files for System Preferences.app. Oh, and likely have to repeat the process after updates Which one would you be comfortable helping a less technical person do? And given the trajectory of macOS, I wouldn't be surprised if they close that "loophole" soon...
- asiachick 7y ago
  I actually kind of feel like there is some false advertising around iCloud. If think the wording has changed over time but it arguably implies you get 5gig of storage when you buy an apple device. Except you don't get 5gig of storage PER device. you get 5gig of storage per account. So if you buy 4 devices (Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppleTV) it seems like you should be able to get 1 account with 20 gig of storage or 2 accounts with 10gig, etc. But if all those devices are for the same person you only get 5gig. I know the wording used to be something along the lines of "every iPhone comes with 5gig of icloud storage". The new wording is "iCloud is built into every Apple device ... Everyone gets 5GB of free iCloud storage to start"