Re: [NEWS] Apple releases M3 MacBook Air models

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

But you can't upload 500 GB of photos to iCloud and not have them on any
of your devices because iCloud isn't an alternate generic cloud storage
solution you can use in that manner.

Of course you can.  You dump those files into iCloud and let iOS/macOS
evict them from local storage over time (or you can do this yourself). They don’t have to take up space anywhere else.