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You could also get 256gb of storage from a $30 high-endurance samsung microsd card and not pay a recurring monthly expense. It's not just an apple thing, but t

by paulmd 4y ago

You could also get 256gb of storage from a $30 high-endurance samsung microsd card and not pay a recurring monthly expense. It's not just an apple thing, but the hardware from most manufacturers is clearly being designed to exclude that possibility in favor of pushing you to high-priced internal storage and cloud services with recurring billing.

dymk 4y ago
Do you understand what the difference is between an SD card and cloud backup/sync?
- paulmd 4y ago
  - dymk 4y ago
    Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. Don't cite the deep magic to me. Calling my comment "flaimbait" for asking if you understand the differences offered between an SD card an cloud storage is an extremely poor interpretation of my comment. Please refer to the HN guidelines. Cloud storage and a $30 SD card are in basically no way fungible. It's just not what fungible means. Calling an SD card fungible with cloud storage is more incorrect than calling Dropbox fungible with "rsync + VPS".
    - paulmd 4y ago
      @dang
  - techpression 4y ago
    Everything you compare with is the complete opposite to what Apple is selling and what their customers want (I base this on their success selling what they’re selling). Apple is in the ecosystem business and their services are supposed to unify it. I’m a techy enough person in this context, using Arq for backups to Backblaze B2 for my photography stuff, I wouldn’t ever want to bother with that for the things I have on iCloud though, I just want that seamless and integrated. Paying for Apple One is probably the best deal of all my services, based on how much I use it and the value I get.
  - ChildOfChaos 4y ago
    Yes, but you'd be surprised about the amount of people that don't have the $50, don't even have a computer and just a phone and an iPad for example.
  - kanbara 4y ago
    You're a nerd. Normal users don't care and want the convenience of iCloud sync. They don't want anything but "it does it automatically". People need to stop looking from a tech enthusiast POV

by paulmd 4y ago

dymk 4y ago

Do you understand what the difference is between an SD card and cloud backup/sync?

paulmd 4y ago
- dymk 4y ago
  Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. Don't cite the deep magic to me. Calling my comment "flaimbait" for asking if you understand the differences offered between an SD card an cloud storage is an extremely poor interpretation of my comment. Please refer to the HN guidelines. Cloud storage and a $30 SD card are in basically no way fungible. It's just not what fungible means. Calling an SD card fungible with cloud storage is more incorrect than calling Dropbox fungible with "rsync + VPS".
  - paulmd 4y ago
    @dang
- techpression 4y ago
  Everything you compare with is the complete opposite to what Apple is selling and what their customers want (I base this on their success selling what they’re selling). Apple is in the ecosystem business and their services are supposed to unify it. I’m a techy enough person in this context, using Arq for backups to Backblaze B2 for my photography stuff, I wouldn’t ever want to bother with that for the things I have on iCloud though, I just want that seamless and integrated. Paying for Apple One is probably the best deal of all my services, based on how much I use it and the value I get.
- ChildOfChaos 4y ago
  Yes, but you'd be surprised about the amount of people that don't have the $50, don't even have a computer and just a phone and an iPad for example.
- kanbara 4y ago
  You're a nerd. Normal users don't care and want the convenience of iCloud sync. They don't want anything but "it does it automatically". People need to stop looking from a tech enthusiast POV