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651 points openchampagne | 3 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.439s | source
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ARandomerDude ◴[04 Feb 25 16:38 UTC] No.42934697[source]▶
> Anyone can reply to invitations. Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.
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cglan ◴[04 Feb 25 16:48 UTC] No.42934923[source]▶
DOA
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darknavi ◴[04 Feb 25 16:56 UTC] No.42935087[source]▶
I'm surprised more people here don't pay for iCloud for at least the bottom tier storage (50GB). The free 5GB is almost worthless in 2025 for doing nightly backups. I don't back up with Apple Photos but even with "just" app data my nightly auto backups are like 10-15GB.
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1. crossroadsguy ◴[04 Feb 25 17:01 UTC] No.42935213[source]▶
Even on iPhone there are much better and much cheaper solutions out there (not to mention cross platform) and those have everything a couple of times better than Photos.app and then a bit more. Maybe except Apple's troupe of privacy claims.
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2. scarface_74 ◴[04 Feb 25 21:23 UTC] No.42938934[source]▶
Can I use these more and better alternatives to back up everything on all of my iOS devices?
3. willseth ◴[04 Feb 25 22:56 UTC] No.42940345[source]▶
Like what? I use Backblaze B2 to backup all my non-Apple stuff and that's $6/TB/mo. iCloud's 2TB plan is $10/mo, so actually cheaper per TB, but with Backblaze you only pay for what you use so it may be cheaper. But pricing is pretty comparable, and I can't even imagine what a PITA it would be to use B2 for Apple stuff, so certainly seems like a good value. Are you saying there are even cheaper solutions that also have good Apple integration?