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This is a striking point. Up until now, switching costs off of the iPhone were basically a matter of dealing with AT&T. Once the iCloud tentacles are in deep en
by gfodor 15y ago
This is a striking point. Up until now, switching costs off of the iPhone were basically a matter of dealing with AT&T. Once the iCloud tentacles are in deep enough it will be nearly impossible to say goodbye to all the licensed content that I only can access through Apple devices.
- pyre 15y agoThough it depends on Apple's licensing terms, Apps that work on multiple platforms have an incentive to allow you to export the data that it syncs with iCloud. They want to keep you as a customer if you jump ship to Android.
- guptaneil 15y agoHow does iCloud make it harder to move away from iOS? All of my apps are already locked into iOS, regardless of iCloud. This is true of any OS though.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- mcherm 15y agoI'm not tethered to my apps... I can, if necessary, move to new apps. Once I did everything in Emacs, but I have moved on. I AM, however, tethered to my data.