Apple iCloud+

User comments reveal a deeply polarized product. Hacker News users (high upvotes) extensively discuss iCloud+ Private Relay's privacy architecture, noting it uses onion routing where no single entity can deanonymize users, but point out it requires trusting Apple as the first hop and doesn't circumvent geo-blocking like traditional VPNs. Multiple users note Apple's E2E encryption gap: photos stored in iCloud are NOT end-to-end encrypted, which one user calls a transparency failure given Apple's privacy marketing. Lemmy users aggressively criticize vendor lock-in, particularly iMessage's degraded experience with Android users (loss of reactions, thread replies, adding/removing people from group chats, large image sending). Pricing frustration is significant: the 5GB free tier is widely called inadequate, users want granular pricing between 50GB-200GB-2TB tiers (e.g., a 500GB-1TB option at $5-6), and one user notes storage cost per GB has dropped ~90% since 2009 while Apple's pricing hasn't reflected this. Enterprise users note managed Apple IDs via Apple Business Manager work reasonably well for SSO/Intune enrollment but have minor account wipe/re-login inconveniences. Cross-platform users express frustration that iCloud offers no viable path for interacting with non-Apple ecosystems. The 2TB storage cap is called 'incredibly silly' by users who would purchase more. Several commenters explicitly compare iCloud unfavorably to Google Photos for features and Backblaze for raw storage pricing.

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