Just as Apple got the size of its iOS upgrades under better control, Microsoft drastically slashed the free allotment of its OneDrive storage service.

Ironic? Absolutely: The OneDrive users who have complained the loudest about the reductions weren’t iPhone owners — the focus of Microsoft‘s 2014 storage expansion — but Windows loyalists who had committed to the ecosystem, especially Windows smartphones, which continue to struggle in the marketplace.

In September 2014, Microsoft used negative news about Apple’s iOS 8 to double the free space on its OneDrive cloud service. A month after Apple rolled out a diet-plan iOS 9, Microsoft pared OneDrive’s free allowance by 83%.

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