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

coolbreeze said:
That .99 tier is so stupid. I can't begin to tell you the number of people I know who have the "not enough storage" error on their iPhone/iPad. I tell them to either pay up or use Google Photos (it's almost always photos eating up the backup space). They don't want to do either, so they just don't let it back up. Then I try again on Google Photos. The ones who take me up on the offer end up loving it and can actually back up their phone again. And if they take 1,453,643 photos and videos, they are all backed up for free, forever.

So then, when their phone gets run over, they lose everything. I mean, it's their fault, but 99 cents for 50gig Apple? Please. Should have storage to match the device for free. 256 iPad? 256 free. 32gig iPhone? 32 gig free.

Nobody likes being nickled and dimed. Apple is outdated in this arena and just thinks it's customers will pay yet another recurring monthly fee. Nope.
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As servers and electricity is free forever , no?
Google is a company who makes money while you use it.
I prefer to pay one dollar and make sure I am not the product.
 
I would also question the people who say they need more storage all the time with photos and music, i bet 50% of that are duplicates, and u need to clean. Do u we have 6+ shots of every single photo?

With 2TB at the same price as 1TB, how could i loose :)
 
I would consider going all cloud, but 2 TB at $9.99 is not a good value if I only would need about 200-250 GB. if they had 1 TB at $4.99 or 500 GB for $3.99 or better yet lower the 2 TB to $4.99, I would consider it. At this point, I would feel like paying for 220 tv channels while only watching 5 of them.
 
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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Unlimited pictures means they compress your photos. No thanks.
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mlody said:
I would consider going all cloud, but 2 TB at $9.99 is not a good value if I only would need about 200-250 GB. if they had 1 TB at $4.99 or 500 GB for $3.99 or better yet lower the 2 TB to $4.99, I would consider it. At this point, I would feel like paying for 220 tv channels while only watching 5 of them.
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I didn't think it was possible to find someone that could find a complaint for 1TB at 9.99 to become 2TB at 9.99. But I think I found them.
 
Take Flight said:
One of these years they are going to just offer free storage. They do so many other things based on just paying for the hardware, it seems logical to remove these sort of hurdles to using their products.
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Abazigal said:
They obviously want you to at least pay for the 50gb option. $1/month per customer. A bit here. A bit there. It all adds up.
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This ^^
Even if they are going towards free in the future, they can make no small amount of chump change by to implementing something that takes little effort.
 
Is it possible to store things only in iCloud, and not sync them locally on your Macs hard drive? I know it kind of works with photos, but Apple decides how the storage is used.
 
10 GB free is not too much to ask? I have parents and older relatives that have no clue or impetus in "buying storage" from Apple or DropBox. Apple should at least give these "basic people" 10GB to be able to back up the most important contents of their iPhones, etc. The iCloud "backup now" button on the iPhone makes it easy enough for them to do so. But the 5GB limitation is just terribly limiting.
 
Tech198 said:
I would also question the people who say they need more storage all the time with photos and music, i bet 50% of that are duplicates, and u need to clean. Do u we have 6+ shots of every single photo?

With 2TB at the same price as 1TB, how could i loose :)
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I don't need 2TB but I have been taking digital photos since '99. I started my digital (MP3) music collection about '97.
 
gsmornot said:
I don't need 2TB but I have been taking digital photos since '99. I started my digital (MP3) music collection about '97.
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Keep in mind that photo file size has in creased over the years.
I remember my photos starting it at a fraction of a MB and not with raw they are approx 25MB. So over 100 fold increase for me.

Not all users are equal. My photo library is currently 130GB but only for a few reasons, I prune which takes a lot of time, something I needed to do because Apple puts measly sized ssd/hard drives in its laptops or expensive options (not the only reason). Video obviously takes a heap more storage.
 
I was able to enable the shared plan today. Running latest public beta of High Sierra.

Settings -> iCloud -> Manage Family -> Apps & Services -> iCloud Storage

One click and it was done. I don't see how to undo it though.

Now sharing one 200gb plan instead of 4 50gb plans (mostly using 8-10gb) and one 200gb plan.
 
bkaus said:
I was able to enable the shared plan today. Running latest public beta of High Sierra.

Settings -> iCloud -> Manage Family -> Apps & Services -> iCloud Storage

One click and it was done. I don't see how to undo it though.

Now sharing one 200gb plan instead of 4 50gb plans (mostly using 8-10gb) and one 200gb plan.
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I did the same about a month ago now but had to go back to each device and downgrade them to the free tier. It did not do it on its own. I waited to see but paid for a month of storage for each device in addition to them being on the family plan. Keep an eye on the individual devices and see if they stop billing automatically.
 
Pricing has actually INCREASED now in India.

Previous Pricing:

5GB - free
50GB - ₹65 (rough equivalent to $1)
200GB - ₹190 ($3 equivalent)
2TB - ₹650 ($10 equivalent)

New Pricing:

5GB - free
50GB - ₹75
200GB - ₹220
2TB - ₹750

These prices are more in line with Euro which is roughly ₹76 today. I think Tim missed the moment where Modi and Trump hugged each other and called each other friends. :(

Anyone from US please update pricing. Anyone from UK and Europe please update your pricing.
 
macintoshmac said:
Pricing has actually INCREASED now in India.

Previous Pricing:

5GB - free
50GB - ₹65 (rough equivalent to $1)
200GB - ₹190 ($3 equivalent)
2TB - ₹650 ($10 equivalent)

New Pricing:

5GB - free
50GB - ₹75
200GB - ₹220
2TB - ₹750

These prices are more in line with Euro which is roughly ₹76 today. I think Tim missed the moment where Modi and Trump hugged each other and called each other friends. :(

Anyone from US please update pricing. Anyone from UK and Europe please update your pricing.
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Here you go

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238
 
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