Don't forget disallowing local backups for no reason other than moneygrubbing.
$3/month for 200Gb is reasonable in your opinion, but people who don't buy Apple can buy a 2T drive for $50.
$3/month for 200Gb is reasonable in your opinion, but people who don't buy Apple can buy a 2T drive for $50.
[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/back-up-iphone-iph3ec...
I'm not all over the details because there were so many reasons for me not to go Apple that this was just the tip of the iceberg.
As far as comparing prices, yes, a bare hard drive is cheaper but I'm paying for that storage with services and backups attached to it. A hard drive won't automatically sync photos between my phone and my computer, and I'm more likely to have that hard drive fail than I am to lose iCloud.
Replacing iCloud storage with a big hard drive is a bit like replacing a car with a motorcycle. Yeah you can buy way more acceleration for less money, but good luck moving your furniture.
What you lose in convenience, you gain in privacy, since iCloud backups are not e2e encrypted.
https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/blog/post/iphone-backup-icloud...