> It baffles me that people start frothing at the mouth about Apple "forcing" people to use iCloud when damn near nothing on the device requires a paid iCloud a

> It baffles me that people start frothing at the mouth about Apple "forcing" people to use iCloud when damn near nothing on the device requires a paid iCloud account and there's pretty decent integration with open standards based systems... Mind to elaborate on that? I just surrendered and started to shell out 4€/month for extra GBs in iCloud because I couldn't find another way to easily and OTA backup iPhone/iPad photos to my local Linux NAS and then my cloud of choice. With Android I do it easily with SyncThing.