Apple lock-in is feeling stronger than ever
Apple lock-in is feeling stronger than ever
Nobody’s been able to nail the ecosystem game, and Apple knows it
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It took a lot of work and effort to migrate my ex's photos off of her iphone and onto an actual hard drive. They funnel the average person into their cloud services with proprietary file extensions, low storage space, the asinine problem of having to have the phone open and unlocked for files to transfer to third party apps, thanks Nextcloud on IOS, and cheap introductory fees.
For casuals with Windows computer, they can install iCloud, and sync and make them available for offline use on their computers. This is basically like any popular cloud services out there except Google, that has Takekout
proprietary file extensions
What file extension is that?
Perhaps he means heic (not proprietary yet not used much outside of i-devices)