[SR2Z]

> Maybe Apple is doing this in an automated way to prevent people using several accounts for storage.

And Apple's attempt to stop people from "stealing" a few dollars a month in storage somehow justifies bricking a $1000 piece of hardware?

Google doesn't care, because Google has WAY better anti-abuse features which cost money and so has weighed the risk of the "Google carelessly wrecks someone's online identity" headline against "someone might squeeze us for an extra 5GB of space."

[porridgeraisin]

Yeah personally speaking I created a separate account just for my WhatsApp backup, but once that breached 15GB as well... I caved and bought the 100GB google one plan.