Apple iCloud

“I migrated family email hosting from Google Workspace to Apple iCloud+ Custom Email Domains a few years ago and it's been smooth sailing.”

“shipped a feature that enables privacy-conscious users to be the only ones to hold the keys to their iCloud account”

“I use the iCloud custom domain for my personal email and I can confidently say it's worth the cost.”

“None use the file system in anything like the way their unix underpinning would have files be understood or organised for users.”

“video shot with the Camera.app gets lumped into the "Photos" partition of iCloud, so it becomes hard to separate the large video files”

“I'm only really paying for it since I have a bunch of their private email addresses in use.”

“While I find iCloud useful and use it regularly, I don't think nagging people until they break is a good thing to do.”

“People have been recommending getting your own domain. Best time to do that was ten years ago, and the second best is today.”

“I was totally unaware of this. I haven't quite been ready to pull the trigger on something like FastMail or ProtonMail, but I have a few domains kicking around and figure it's worth a shot to try it out.”

“email hosting on your own domain is included in the plan. If you're already paying for it you might as well use it.”

“wholeheartedly trusted his child's baby videos and photos to iCloud, until he got hacked and all the videos got deleted forever”

“they don't really want power users who use their whole quota, so they don't make things like command line / API access easy.”

“It is a sub-standard experience and it looks like it is only going to get worse as Apple pushes iCloud into more areas of macOS.”

“they would rather build and normalize CLIENT SIDE CONTENT SCANNING so they can continue to market iCloud as "secure and private"”

“The default new factory out of box workflow for "enrollment" in google services, iCloud or Microsoft-everything on a new ios, macos, windows or android personal computing device is clearly designed to sign people up for subscriptions.”

“compared to automatically synchronizing to iCloud or Google Photos, the experience is significantly worse”

“iCloud+ was the best $1 / month custom domain email and email alias service with 100GB of E2EE cloud drive.”

“By default (without ADP), your (i)Messages, Drive files, contacts, calendars, backups of data from third-party apps are not end-to-end encrypted”

“icloud subtly enabled by default for syncing photo and data, and that will get your mac and iphone stuck in a complicated mess”

“iCloud is pretty good I reckon - for the millions of devices they have in the market”

“Let's hope that your phone won't be part of the 70 million smartphones that get lost each year and your photos aren't backed up.”

“iCloud's E2EE photo backup is something I reluctantly started using and found to be very nice”

“iCloud is generally a pretty predictable service that delivers on a core set of user requirements very well.”

“they opt you in to the 5GB free plan and yes, the 30 sliders is apps but that doesn't alter the fact that I want to be asked before they exfiltrate my data”

“Problem is if you try to get those files back to store them offline, it gets very tricky very quickly with ambiguous verbiage”

“But I can scroll back many years and pull up any photo video and play or view just fine right away.”

“The same Apple that later fought against the government forcing document scanning in iCloud and was able to keep them out off device.”

“Still, it's more important to have confidence that the privacy services are not smoke and mirrors with carefully carved-out loopholes.”

“iCloud is much more secure than most people realize because most people don't take the 30 minutes to learn how it is architected.”

“permanent notification bubble on the System Preferences app on the Mac where I'm not logged into an Apple ID”

“iCloud (if you're invested in the iCloud ecosystem) along with its seamless integrations”

“We can't logically use sales, customer satisfaction or user retention as metrics to measure how successful services iCloud or the App Store are”

“It's substantially easier for a user to have their photos immediately and automatically backed up to icloud or Google Photos”

“The built-in integrations (iCloud, Google Drive) are smooth right up until you’re locked out or forced into changes you can't control.”

“This was a huge struggle. Finally, after weeks, we were able to reset the password, but only because we had access to the email he used.”

“Apple clearly has a problem. In recent months there have been a number of reports online of people getting locked out of their Apple ID/iCloud”

“my new phone looks and acts like my old phone with all of the bookmarks, icons, app data, settings etc being restored”

“sync application data between native apps running on different (and even different kinds of) devices”

“I don't know of any other service I would recommend my mother use for securely backing up her phone.”

“Everything is fully synced to all of my other devices through iCloud, a service which I've spent zero minutes setting up and zero minutes maintaining.”