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OSX: Nagging for Use of iCloud.

Author
Gray et al.
Date
2 Feb 2017
Publisher
UXP2 Lab

“OSX warns its user that disk space is almost full and that they should optimize their storage space. When the user chooses to optimize storage, it pushes the use of iCloud on the user.”

Apple’s OSX was catalogued by the UXP2 Lab over a storage prompt, which the entry describes as nagging. According to the entry, OSX warns the user that disk space is almost full and that they should optimise their storage. When the user chooses to optimise storage, the system pushes the use of iCloud on them.