Honestly I'd be happy with 10gb for the free plan, I always bump up against the 5gb just trying to keep my phone backed up.
Apple isn't about sharing. That's was it was so silly that some thought we'd see iMessage for Android. That would mean there's no reason for someone to switch from Android to use their awesome messaging service. One of the reasons people switch to iOS is the messaging and getting rid of that pushes people away from iOS as there is one less reason to use it.
The same would be true in allowing non-iCloud users to share. It gives them one less reason to bother switching to iOS. My fiancé loves being able to share with me via iCloud. Make it so she can do so with Android and now she has one less reason to bother sticking with iOS.
And that's exactly why. Those that want it will pay for it. Why give it away for free when they can collect a very small fee to help offset the cost?
Not gonna happen. Apple isn't in the services business. They don't index your photos and sell you ads based on them like Google does. There's no benefit to them offering you unlimited when they can charge a small fee to offset the cost.
If you buy an idevice, it should automatically come with enough iCloud space to back it up, as a minimum.
Woah, not too bad. The 1TB iCloud is already a snippet cheaper than Dropbox. And certainly considerably quicker in regards to upload/download speeds.
Why?
And why stop there? Apple should through in a case, a couple $50 iTunes gift cards, and an Airport Express.
The competition is offering much more. Google bundles 100 GB/2 years on a lousy $125 Chromebook.
As somebody said, Apple's selling fast food at caviar prices.
Apple should give 5 gb PER DEVICE PURCHASED (iDevices and Macs). That's incentive to buy more Apple devices. 5 gb for ALL devices is laughable. And 50gb for .99 a month is also laughable; Google gives that to everyone for free, and that amount of storage isn't very useful anymore. My Photos library alone totals nearly 250 gb.While I have 3 iDevices and have a paltry 5GB to back them all up
Darn, I was hoping they'd upgrade the free tier at the event.
Apple should really give you storage depending on your devices. Have a 64 GB iPhone? You have 64 GB of storage. Have a 256 GB MBP too? You have 330 GB.
Roll the cost into the price of the phone if need be (I would argue that the cost of the devices already justifies this 'free' service and their profit margins appear to support that notion).Why should it be free? I think a valid argument could be made that $19.99 per month is too expensive. But free?