Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac:
The file size limit prevents iOS users from accidentally downloading a big game on LTE and blowing through their carrier’s data cap. However, the cellular limit is often mocked as a stupid feature as Apple offers no opportunity to override the limit and force the download to succeed.
It is also silly because the cellular limit is enforced non-discriminately, which means even iPhone users with unlimited data plans are still barred from downloading apps and games over 200 MB.
The alert would be better implemented as a warning, informing the user that they are about to download a large file but including a ‘Continue Download’ button to allow the download to complete. Even users with capped data plans may need a big app in a pinch from time to time.
Perfectly put, completely agree.
Add to this the places where cellular is fast enough and so readily available, that WiFi is just not part of the mix. There should be a setting to turn this limitation off. It’s an artifact.
And at the same time, Apple, bump that 5GB cloud base storage to something actually usable.
This gets a “finally”.
I’m conflicted about the 5GB free cloud based storage Apple provides. On the one hand I think to myself – why should Apple provide any free storage for iPhone users? Does Dell provide free storage to backup each computer they sell?
I kinda think Apple should provide free cloud based syncing of contacts, notes, reminders, etc – but if you want to back up your iPhone, use your PC or Mac. If you want to back it up to the cloud, buy iCloud storage…