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Apple Drops 2TB iCloud Storage Price to $9.99, Eliminates 1TB Option

eatrains said:
Google Photos is not a backup. It recompresses all your pictures and videos.
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Over 16 megapixels, yes, under, no. No iPhone is over that, so they are full resolution.

Video is compressed to 1080p if it's larger (i.e. 4k).

My discerning eyeballs cannot tell the difference between 20mpx photos "compressed" to 16 on Google Photos. Not one bit.

But hey, pay up. Good by me. I consider it a very, very fair tradeoff that won't affect many phone models. If you are dumping DSLR files by the thousands, then sure, you will be mad. Phone snaps? Nah.
 
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coolbreeze said:
We've been hearing this scary thing for years and years. No google monster has come from underneath my bed to get me. My entire life is in Google. Have Google Homes all throughout my house. I love all of it.

Still ticking along exactly as I did before a computer was a thing. I do not care, YMMV. The free stuff I get out of them getting my metadata is very much worth it to me. Go nuts, GOOG.

Or pay for a perceived safety net. Everything is discoverable on the internet. All of it.
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You're absolutely right until you're not. If you trust any single entity with your entire digital life you deserve everything you get.
 
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coolbreeze said:
Over 16 megapixels, yes, under, no. No iPhone is over that, so they are full resolution.

Video is compressed to 1080p if it's larger (i.e. 4k).

My discerning eyeballs cannot tell the difference between 20mpx photos "compressed" to 16 on Google Photos. Not one bit.

But hey, pay up. Good by me. I consider it a very, very fair tradeoff that won't affect many phone models. If you are dumping DSLR files by the thousands, then sure, you will be mad. Phone snaps? Nah.
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Incorrect. Google Photos recompresses ALL photos and videos, in addition to downsizing if larger than 16MP/1080p.
 
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This WWDC didn't had many big and flashy changes, but the small changes are more than worth it!
 
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eatrains said:
Incorrect. Google Photos recompresses ALL photos and videos, in addition to downsizing if larger than 16MP/1080p.
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Cool. They look fantastic and indiscernible from the originals to me. All good for my specific use case. You clearly have much more important requirements, so Apple is standing by to help you out. Everyone's happy with choices!
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wigby said:
You're absolutely right until you're not. If you trust any single entity with your entire digital life you deserve everything you get.
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Ominous!!1

Don't care. I'm a super duper risk taker. Tough guy, some say.

I've been hearing these internet warnings for over a decade. Still waiting on what I'm deserving of. Exciting and can't wait for the day to come!
 
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so I'm wondering for the iCloud storage family sharing, it mean give every member partition of the storage size? e.g. for 2TB I assign 1 TB for my wife and 1TB for me?

I'm actually wondering for iCloud photo library, if I upload all my photo into iCloud photo library can my wife now view the iCloud photo library already?
 
So it's 50, 200 and 2TB

Wish it was 50 , 1TB and 2TB

Though for people willing to spend $10 , update to 2TB is nice
 
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So Family Sharing is coming for High Sierra, but not here yet?

Wife is at 49,23 GB of her 50GB, so have to bump it up soon, but would of course rather share 2TB than several separate upgrades.
 
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If only they would let us choose to always use on demand downloads for documents stored on iCloud on Mac OS. And an option to separate Documents from Desktop when choosing to use iCloud. Hope it's added to High Sierra during the beta period.
 
Sweet! Been waiting for family sharing since iCloud was originally released. Will bump to the 2TB plan as soon as MacOS 10.13 and iOS 11 are released.

This is so awesome. I've got my 2016 MBP w/ 1TB of storage, and 3 iPhones and 2 iPads with 128GB of storage each. Will be just enough to backup all my family's devices with one plan.
 
A nice pricing model would be that you get a free backup of all that is on your iPhone.

If your iPhone is 128 GB you get 128 GB backed up. You would not risk losing your stuff and no more irritating dialogs that you have run out of cloud space for the average user.

Once it filled up, you would get a waning saying that all of your memory on your device has been used, but you can free memory up by putting stuff in the Apple archive. You would then buy archive space, for similar prices as today,
 
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Have a MS Office subscription and 2GB of storage each for 5 family members is part of the deal. Apple continue to lag in the cloud storage market, especially since onedrive apps provide good integration and will continue to do so in the new files systems on os11.
 
This is classic Steve Jobs Era style of product launch pricing. Increase the capability of the offering and keep the price same. Drop some intermittent offering. The same trend happened in iPhone for years. Every year Steve will launch a new iPhone and keep the price same as last year. And drop the price of last yrs model by 100 USD. I think Apple has become agile after the brief disastrous launch last time. Apple Just Outdid itself this time. in every aspect.
 
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50GB for $0.99, that works for me!! I do think they should increase the 5gb to 10 to 15 gb for the free plan though
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Yeah I got the 0.99 tier. And I manage fine with that. Plus I don’t really trust backing up a bunch of my stuff on someone’s cloud service. But that’s just me LOL.
 
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PowerBook-G5 said:
While it's nice that the 2TB option has been reduced in price, I wish there was still a 1TB option, but also at a reduced price ($5.99?).

Right now I pay $2.99/month for 200GB, which I'm close to filling. Paying an extra $7/month for the 2TB tier when I really don't need that much isn't ideal, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Maybe they should give you more for your $2.99... perhaps 256gb (or 300gb if they want round up).

And they 0.99 tier should likewise be raised from 50gb to 64gb (or 75 gb if they want round).
 
PowerBook-G5 said:
While it's nice that the 2TB option has been reduced in price, I wish there was still a 1TB option, but also at a reduced price ($5.99?).

Right now I pay $2.99/month for 200GB, which I'm close to filling. Paying an extra $7/month for the 2TB tier when I really don't need that much isn't ideal, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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That's how I feel about Dropbox.

I would like more than the 3GB I currently have... but I don't need 1000GB for $100 a year.

Meet me in the middle! :)
 
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coolbreeze said:
We've been hearing this scary thing for years and years. No google monster has come from underneath my bed to get me. My entire life is in Google. Have Google Homes all throughout my house. I love all of it.

Still ticking along exactly as I did before a computer was a thing. I do not care, YMMV. The free stuff I get out of them getting my metadata is very much worth it to me. Go nuts, GOOG.

Or pay for a perceived safety net. Everything is discoverable on the internet. All of it.
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True. Everything is discoverable and the safety net is just perceived. So, let's remove encryption from your banking, let's remove any and all privacy settings from whatever apps you use, considering our lives revolve around social media anyway, so on and so forth, right?
 
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