AES is a specification, not a piece of software. Closed-source software like iCloud that implements the AES specification is still proprietary.
airglow
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iCloud is proprietary by definition because Apple has not publicly released its source code under a free license.
Only Google is claiming that the damages are less than $1 million. You're taking Google's self-interested claim as fact while overlooking Google's financial motivation to pay less than what they owe, which a jury could find to be in the hundreds of millions. For obvious reasons, court judgments aren't decided by the defendants.
Based on the statements Google previously made, Google most likely sent a check for a fraction of the damages that a jury could find them liable for.
It's unclear just how big the check was. The court filing redacted key figures to protect Google's trade secrets. But Google claimed that testimony from US experts "shrank" the damages estimate "considerably" from initial estimates between $100 million and $300 million, suggesting that the current damages estimate is "substantially less" than what the US has paid so far in expert fees to reach those estimates.
According to Reuters, Google has not disclosed "the size of its payment" but has said that "after months of discovery, the Justice Department could only point to estimated damages of less than $1 million."
A fine of less than $1 million is absolutely not what anyone except Google is asking for.
Assuming that you'll take advantage of the extra Drive space, that's two services (since Calendar is part of Mail), so I think subscribing to Unlimited would be worth it for you.
John Legere was hired specifically to make the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile happen, and he resigned right after. He put on a charade to make people think that T-Mobile was a customer-friendly company that would continue to be customer-friendly after merging with Sprint, while knowing the entire time that everything would go to hell after the merger happened and he was gone. John Legere is a con man that pushed a giant anticompetitive corporate merger through antitrust scrutiny, not a benevolent person.
So blatantly anticompetitive. Waiting for the rest of the world to catch up with the EU's consumer protections.
Try out the free versions of the apps and decide whether you would pay for at least two of them.
Since I already use other alternatives like Bitwarden for many of Proton's services, I'm only using Proton Mail and I can't justify subscribing to Proton Unlimited until they release a Linux desktop client for Proton Drive.
WebRender has been enabled by default on Firefox for Android since version 92 (September 2021). Performance is fine for me, especially with uBlock Origin.