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Apple Gives Additional Year of Increased iCloud Storage to Former MobileMe Members
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Looking at their current revenue charts and profit margins, they can increase their profits a lot more by releasing a new iPad/iPhone/Retina MBP 13".
Macs are a very small part of Apple these days and even that part is dominated by the MacBooks rather than the desktops.
Wonderful! Now I get another year of "24.92 GB of 25 GB available". Thank you for this precious gift, Apple.
I don't want any backups on iCloud, I don't want my photos as a goddamn "photo stream" on iCloud, my Numbers and Pages docs on iCloud will never take up more than a puny fraction of that space, and it'll be 20 years before my email takes up 20+ GB... I just want regular online storage with files accessible from all my computers. So I guess I'll continue using my combo of SkyDrive, Google Drive and DropBox and leave iCloud virtually empty. Because nothing makes more sense than having an Apple-only machine park synced to an Apple cloud service and then having to employ everyone except Apple for the cloud services I need.
I don't want any backups on iCloud, I don't want my photos as a goddamn "photo stream" on iCloud, my Numbers and Pages docs on iCloud will never take up more than a puny fraction of that space, and it'll be 20 years before my email takes up 20+ GB... I just want regular online storage with files accessible from all my computers. So I guess I'll continue using my combo of SkyDrive, Google Drive and DropBox and leave iCloud virtually empty. Because nothing makes more sense than having an Apple-only machine park synced to an Apple cloud service and then having to employ everyone except Apple for the cloud services I need.
I'm also in this boat.
iCloud just offers me nothing.
I don't trust the backup, and even if I did my only iOS device backup is about 450MB.
As above, only one iOS device, so Photo Stream is completely useless.
I'm using less than 150MB for email storage.
The only Apps I use that store anything in iCloud use up less than 100kb each.
I really miss iDisk and Galleries, but Dropbox has more than filled that gap.
Every single time you wonder why apple does anything, remember that there is only one reason:
They figure that it will increase total profits.
Sounds like a company to me.
Personally I find Mail/Calendars/Reminders/Safari bookmarks/Notes/Find My iPhone/Numbers/Pages sync extremely useful. It's a godsend! Probably the most useful 800 MB I ever had! But the remaining 24.92 GB are the most useless I ever had, because the included services that would make use of this space are as useful to me as a runny dog turd. Actually I think the turd would be more useful, at least I could use it for a nasty prank or something.
Nope Apple lost a case here in Germany against Motorola and have been found to infringe a patent about Push Mail functionality that Motorola holds. It has been like this for years now and Apple does not seem to care to get it back working...This is the only reason which is holding me back from getting a "full payed" membership with iCloud.
That's exactly what I'm saying. You said "iCloud offers me nothing", I argued that for me personally there are plenty of awesome iCloud services, but none of them need loads of storage, and the services they do offer that could potentially use all that space (Photo stream, backup etc) are the least desirable of all. A successor to iDisk on the other hand...
Yeah, and XCode and the iOS development tools aren't bringing in any direct revenue at all. Discontinue immediately! Because nothing communicates trustworthiness and commitment better than ignoring all indirect long-term implications and focusing only on whatever is making a quick buck today.
Nevermind the fact that Mac sales are still strong, no matter how many other product categories came out of nowhere and made the Mac look relatively small on some pie chart. And if Mac sales should drop, maybe Apple should look in the mirror before they look at the customers -- if the current offerings have big fat "DON'T BUY!" warnings on them because they haven't been refreshed for aeons, current sales tell a misleading story about potential sales.
LOL
In all honesty, this might well be the reason though. How much does it cost to migrate these users to less storage - IT hours, support hours when **** gets deleted and people call in, pissed off people getting a Samsung instead... add all this up, and compare to the cost of just keeping those 25GB (in my case) going, and doing the latter is likely cheaper.
I've never made use of my extra storage and probably won't do so now either. I have no intention of eventually paying extra, and the work involved in cleaning up 20GB of iCloud stuff at the end makes it not worth it for me.
I suppose I could turn on remote backups....
I am confused. I am a former MM customer, going back through the .mac days, and I only got the default 5GB storage.
When I rolled my MM account over to iCloud, I only got the 5GB and nothing more.
Meh. I don't use it anyway, so I guess it's a moot point.....
MD
When I rolled my MM account over to iCloud, I only got the 5GB and nothing more.
Meh. I don't use it anyway, so I guess it's a moot point.....
MD
What could you possibly use extra iCloud storage for? There's no iDisk or anything.
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You can chew up data if you use iCloud for backup, but it's kinda pointless to do that. I hate having my backups in the cloud. If I want a part of my backup (say, the photos) back, I have to wipe my iPhone and restore it with iCloud just to do that. If it's on my computer, I can unzip the IPSW and take what I want.
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You can chew up data if you use iCloud for backup, but it's kinda pointless to do that. I hate having my backups in the cloud. If I want a part of my backup (say, the photos) back, I have to wipe my iPhone and restore it with iCloud just to do that. If it's on my computer, I can unzip the IPSW and take what I want.
No, I was wondering how people were using so much data. I use my devices heavily so it was a genuine question.
For me it's the opposite. I never payed for MM, and I just got the 25 GB for another year. All I did was sign up for a free trial of MM before it got discontinued.
And it's all about you now isn't it.
So many people on this forum have problems seeing the bigger picture.
LOL and AMEN! It will take a culture shift for Apple to deliver an industry leading cloud service. That's not their goal, as we see the direction taken with iCloud. Even the bug-riddled MobileMe service was a better value than iCloud.
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2 things :
- Xcode and iOS development tools work fine on my MacBook Air.
- Both could easily be ported to Windows or any other OS as they are mostly just a bunch of open source tools that already compile on those.
I'm not saying Apple is abandonning the Mac though, just that they are giving the attention the revenue it generates warrants. IE, they'll concentrate on their big money makers before concentrating on their little money makers. That means MacBooks, iPads and iPhones first. Desktop Macs and iPods seconds.
I suspect lots of users were going to downgrade back to the free 5gb, Apple wants us to really use up our extra storage, so gives us more time to upload our stuff so that downgrading no longer becomes an option
It's a freebie with an ulterior motive.
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What happens in a year, after people have used most of this space? Are they not going to renew their storage, at a cost this time, and have all their stores data be lost? This is similar to a drug dealer giving drugs away for free to get the user hooked, then later charging for the drug. If these people paid once (for MobileMe), they're likely to pay again in the future. Apple does not want to lose a revenue stream.
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5GB seems like a reasonable limit for some people to hit (if they have multiple iOS devices to back up), but 25GB or more? Nobody seems to be able to explain how they can fill that.
I'm happy with the news. I like backing up to iCloud rather than my computer, so this means I can keep doing that without paying.
But to keep with the complaints sprinkled around: yeah, this should be standard and yeah, this should include some sort of iDisk storage or interface.
But to keep with the complaints sprinkled around: yeah, this should be standard and yeah, this should include some sort of iDisk storage or interface.
Your sig says you have a 32GB iPhone?! Seems like it would be possible to use 25GB for backup, then.