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Apple Gives Additional Year of Increased iCloud Storage to Former MobileMe Members
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If you have a kid, you can easily accumulate 10GB in video and pictures in a year.
And for every vacation add another 2GB.
1.6 GB? You're working too hard - take a vacation.
I have a feeling that the majority of these grandfathered mobile me users are using less than 5gb of data. I believe in the end, it wasn't worth the headache to tick off a handful of users and make them pay to upgrade. Much cheaper to just give them another year of 20 gb, and most are probably using much less.
Most of those that gripe aren't using it!
I have a 64GB iPhone, with only 2GB free, backing up almost everything, and it uses about 15GB. I used to backup my wife's and my iPhone and BOTH were under 5GB.
Photos do NOT count toward the total!
Before you complain that 5GB or 25GB isn't enough, are you using iCloud for backup?
Sure I can backup to my MBP, but a year ago someone walked back into the employee area of my work (retail camera store), back into my office, and stole my iPhone 4. Even though I used to backup every 2-3 days with the laptop, because I had switched to iCloud, everything had backed up the night before, so I lost nothing.
To me iCloud is great. I used to pay $69 a year for MobileMe (Apple deal, or Amazon), so even $40 a year for a much better service is worth it. And most people can get away for free or for $20.
One other note: You can set up a free iCloud account for each user, with 5GB of free space, but still sync all your calendars, reminders, etc. between all your devices.
I have a 64GB iPhone, with only 2GB free, backing up almost everything, and it uses about 15GB. I used to backup my wife's and my iPhone and BOTH were under 5GB.
Photos do NOT count toward the total!
Before you complain that 5GB or 25GB isn't enough, are you using iCloud for backup?
Sure I can backup to my MBP, but a year ago someone walked back into the employee area of my work (retail camera store), back into my office, and stole my iPhone 4. Even though I used to backup every 2-3 days with the laptop, because I had switched to iCloud, everything had backed up the night before, so I lost nothing.
To me iCloud is great. I used to pay $69 a year for MobileMe (Apple deal, or Amazon), so even $40 a year for a much better service is worth it. And most people can get away for free or for $20.
One other note: You can set up a free iCloud account for each user, with 5GB of free space, but still sync all your calendars, reminders, etc. between all your devices.
Meh I'm happy. I still think next year at this time that they need to unveil 10gb per iOS device standard.
^^ This, exactly.
To the complainers: please people, stop feeling like you're entitled to more iCloud storage. It's actually mental to read. The whole point is to get you into the service and pay for it, 5GB is of course almost useless for that very reason. Like iCloud? Why not actually try paying for it if? It honestly blows my mind. I've paid for cloud services since .Mac ("what's .Mac?"), will continue to do so, and iCloud is much cheaper and more useful IMO. Stop being stingy little generation X Factor kids and actually pay for it! Buying an iOS device doesn't entitle you to free iCloud, cases, personal thank you letters from Tim Cook, so please, think about how ridiculous you sound before you moan
Thanks for this, Apple!
Now please bring back iDisk and My Gallery. I will gladly pay for it as I have in the past.
Now please bring back iDisk and My Gallery. I will gladly pay for it as I have in the past.
Same here. I want iDisk back and the documents I lost with the "upgrade". I downloaded my photos but forgot to download the 100mb or so of docs I had.
For cloud storage I'd need at least 2TB just for music and books.
What the hell are you doing to your iCloud account? I back up two devices, and use 500 mb. Do you keep your camera roll forever?
They are sort of...
Apple is now starting to load everyones new iClould email (check your Apple ID) you can use this as an alternative apple ID but it associates older emails. For example my new iclould has my new iclould, .mac and mobile me address all under one now! You can also add other emails used to this account as long as you can access and verify the email address.
I'm in the same boat
I got my extension email too today. But where I was using over half of the available space with mobileMe, the only storage I manage to use now or device backups. I would gladly go back to paying €79,- a year to have galleries that my non-apple using family members can actually download pictures from.
Or a way to decide for myself what documents should be stored in the cloud and an options to share said files with whomever I choose (aka iDisk)
I realise I can get DropBox and a bunch of other stuff to replicate the functionality, but none of them have the same seamless integration as iDisk and galleries had.
To me, web services is all about sharing with other people. Having my documents synced to every device is far less useful to me than having options to make my documents available to the world in a secure manner.
MobileMe, while far from perfect, suited my needs much better than iCloud's narcissistic approach to web services.
I applaud the gesture by Apple, but I would get more excited about them bringing back more meaningful ways (to me) of actually using the web space they provide.
I got my extension email too today. But where I was using over half of the available space with mobileMe, the only storage I manage to use now or device backups. I would gladly go back to paying €79,- a year to have galleries that my non-apple using family members can actually download pictures from.
Or a way to decide for myself what documents should be stored in the cloud and an options to share said files with whomever I choose (aka iDisk)
I realise I can get DropBox and a bunch of other stuff to replicate the functionality, but none of them have the same seamless integration as iDisk and galleries had.
To me, web services is all about sharing with other people. Having my documents synced to every device is far less useful to me than having options to make my documents available to the world in a secure manner.
MobileMe, while far from perfect, suited my needs much better than iCloud's narcissistic approach to web services.
I applaud the gesture by Apple, but I would get more excited about them bringing back more meaningful ways (to me) of actually using the web space they provide.
I'm still shocked somebody hasn't said the inevitable line....
"It wouldn't have happened under Steve....."
(please say this with an emphasis of sarcasm).
"It wouldn't have happened under Steve....."
(please say this with an emphasis of sarcasm).
Fully agree. This would bring me 15 GB. (If it came to pass, I might even think of buying some old iOS devices to increase my complimentary capacity; this would boost value of used devices somewhat and thus provide upward support of pricing on new iOS devices.)
As it is, I was reminded to, and thus did, cancel my 20$/10MB/yr iCloud upgrade. I had bought this as a way to archive to cloud, but with the unfavorable cost and space limitations, decided to do the backups to my Mac instead.
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Half-actions often result in twice pain.
Unfortunately, you have Motorola to thank for that
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/24/apple-halts-icloud-push-services-in-germany/
Uh...what? If you were a MobileMe member, you would have received an email in the last week or so advising you to make sure that your iCloud subscription was not downgraded to the 5GB free version.
Clearly, that's why the person you're replying to signed up for a paid plan. As did I (I opted for the cheaper 10GB of additional storage). Now, we're all getting our 20GB (ex MobileMe) storage extended, so have not been charged.
Hope that answers your bizarrely aggressive question. Anything else you'd like to know?
Awesome!
I think it's great that I get another year of 20GB storage.
Yes, everyone's complaining, yes, the old iDisk was nice, but also really, really slow. I am currently using 10 GB of my iCloud storage, 4 GB of that are iPhone backups, some hundred MBytes of documents (Keynote et al), and 7 GB of Mail. That is all my mail from the last ~5 years. The rest of my mail is archived at googlemail.
I think it's great that I get another year of 20GB storage.
Yes, everyone's complaining, yes, the old iDisk was nice, but also really, really slow. I am currently using 10 GB of my iCloud storage, 4 GB of that are iPhone backups, some hundred MBytes of documents (Keynote et al), and 7 GB of Mail. That is all my mail from the last ~5 years. The rest of my mail is archived at googlemail.
Slow clap for you. To me, Apple's limited vision for web services is no longer worth paying for. I had always paid for MobileMe since day one, as I too made use of the photo and document sharing features. The inability of iCloud to let me elegantly and seamlessly share photos and documents to the web is a showstopper. I'm happy that Bookmarks sync bugs have finally been quashed this year with iCloud, but to me iCloud is a downgrade from MobileMe. I'll stick with cross-platform accessible web services.
-ITG
That's it exactly, and I only have one (new) extra device that will access any cloud data, and I still can't imagine using iCloud for that.
That's really crappy. Have you replaced any of that storage? I went with SugarSync, which got me 6GB free, and then I figured out you can get the same amount with Dropbox free if you perform some simple tasks, so I've got ~12GB free storage between the two. Not nearly the amount you need, or the amount I used to have with iDisk, but it's something (and it's free!).