• rootusercyclone@lemmy.world
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    I think there are logical explanations for this as commented by others. I’m genuinely curious who’s actually transferring data from the phone port these days… it’s been years since I synced anything to my computer. My port is used solely for charging. What’s the use case? Music?

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        I don’t know that there’s a lot of overlap between apple users and people that mind overpaying.

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          You’re equating monthly cloud storage payments to paying 40$ per TB of external HDD storage?

          For reference, 200GB of iCloud storage are 3$/month, so 36$ per year.

          Check prices before you make comments like this.

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            Ah, was more talking about the 100 $ to 200 $ price tag for next storage segment on device, since you’ll have to store all pics in hi-res on device vs only “tiny” thumbnails and getting the full pic on demand.

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      I work in IT and will often plug in devices to a PC for a variety of reasons (I work with alot of older folks, so “cloud storage” is scary).

      The transfer times with iPhone can be pretty appalling.

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        (I work with alot of older folks, so “cloud storage” is scary).

        Yeah, well, Jennifer Lawrence has a lot to say about Apple’s cloud storage.

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        It’s worth noting that wireless transfer does not mean “cloud storage”. It can, and often does, but it is also easy to wirelessly back up things like photos entirely locally. With most prebuilt NAS units, all you have to do is buy something like a synology, some of them even come prefilled with hard drives, and go through the wizard in the app. That’s it, and the app will wirelessly, automatically back up things like pictures to your own locally controlled storage. I’m pretty sure you can do it natively with Time Machine too if you really wanted.

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      I don’t want to pay for 300gb of overpriced iCloud storage. That’s the use case.

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          Setting up a network file share or FTP server or whatever and the app to access it is muuuch more effort than just plugging my phone in and using it like any other flash storage device, plus USB3 transfer speeds are better.

          For me it’s just simpler and less prone to error is all.

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            If you are dealing with large amounts of data I get it. I’d go hardwired too. Most people’s use case is “I took some video today and I want to mirror it to my computer”. That doesn’t sound like the case.

            How much data are you moving around?

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            For easy fast sharing over local LAN there are services like https://pairdrop.net which are far from hard to use. It may not be as fast as USB, but in most cases it works well. I just wanted to point out that sharing things over LAN is not that hard.

            Even better service is LocalSend.

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            Lol, you can literally have a simple program running on PC which syncs the phone automatically via WiFi while charging overnight.

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              I struggled with iOS’ Wi-Fi syncing for almost a year before giving up on it. It was garbage (probably also by design to try to force me to pay for overpriced iCloud storage). My use case is to sync photos to the desktop photos app and music to the desktop music app.

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                  Looks very nice. Maybe I will have to try it sometime.

                  Fortunately my use case doesn’t require frequent syncing, so once every 2-3 months just plugging my phone in when I know I’ll be at my desk at home for a while is enough. It’s shitty but it gets the job done that I need. I always prefer to stick to the native tools where possible just to stay compliant with whatever changes may come in the future.

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        That one actually supports 3.0 10 GB/s though.

        It’s funny how Apple said that 3.0 was really fast and exciting.

        Come on apple, it’s just 3.0. The first android phone with 3.0 (I assume 5 GB/s) came out a decade ago.

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      Moving large FLAC files onto my phone, and sending music data through USB into an audiophile DAC/amp. The higher the transfer speeds the better when you’re moving gigabytes of data from my computer to my phone.

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      I do it all the time to pull pictures off my camera to my phone. I can picture other photographers doing the same.

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      Photos and videos for professionals. These days phone cameras are good enough for at least a backup device and they’ll transfer to laptop using cable. But I’d assume those people are on the iPhone pro models

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      Only using the cable to sync with my Windows virtual machine with iTunes.

      Wouldn’t have it any other way as iCloud isn’t for me.

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      Music and photos really. But they’re not common and you can do that on USB 2 speeds. For me I just take it as an opportunity to slow charge my phone. And I do it so rarely anyway, usually when I’m changing to a new phone.

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      Even when I sync to a computer, which is never these days, it’d typically just be over wifi.