Apple iCloud+

157 comments (top 25 by upvotes shown), split into two clusters. (1) HackerNews, dominated by iCloud Private Relay: technically literate users largely praise the architecture — a two-hop split where Apple knows your identity but not your destination and the second party (Fastly) knows the destination but not who you are ('no single entity can identify both who a user is and which sites they visit'). One +898 comment: 'Props to Apple for the design of this service... likely to be a solid privacy improvement for almost all users in a careful and deliberate way.' Consistent caveats: it is NOT a VPN — it won't bypass geo-locked streaming content, won't replace corporate/university VPN access, and Apple deliberately avoided user-picked exit locations (a commenter citing Craig Federighi on The Talk Show says this was to avoid facilitating geo-block circumvention). Skeptics note courts/NSLs could compel logging, and that users must now 'trust Apple since that's the first hop.' A separate transparency criticism targets backups: commenters argue no large company will fully E2E-encrypt photos and want 'a transparency label for iCloud backup showing what is and is not E2E before enabling,' saying the gap 'undermines so much of what they're advertising to the consumer.' (2) Lemmy threads are harsher on the storage business: no 500GB–1TB tier around $5–6; storage cost per GB fell ~90% since 2009 while iCloud pricing didn't follow (Backblaze cited as comparison); you can 'just run out of the top iCloud storage tiers' with no option to buy more; dislike of fixed 'bucket sizes' vs per-byte pricing. Lock-in resentment is strong: deregistering phone number from iMessage after leaving iPhone described as a 'nightmare'; group chats with Android users lose features (no adding/removing participants, no reactions/unsending/threads); 'It's not like I can use something like b2 buckets as a replacement.' One user concludes bluntly: 'Apple is evil.'

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