john gruber. newsletter >> no, i do not have a newsletter it is probably foolish on my part i should start one >> you have to go get fireball now, maybe a fireball spell that will come to you this is a controversial issue. we talked about it we talked about it yesterday with the privacy advocate. who was very critical of apple but it seems to me that a lot of people are misunderstanding what apple is doing here in part because the backup of your photos it is almost on by default lots of people have icloud turned on whether they're using it and paying for it or not. is that part of the difficulty here >> yeah. apple knows the answer to some of this. they know how people use icloud photos and how many photos they have in it but we don't they don't publicly announce it. one of the long time criticisms of apple's online services is that the free tier of icloud had a five gigabyte storage limit forever. going back ten years which is not a lot considering that's supposed to contain all your photos if yo