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Apple Gives Additional Year of Increased iCloud Storage to Former MobileMe Members

Daveoc64 said:
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.
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I could use more than 5gb for backup, but I'd they allowed true file sharing (like what they killed with iDisk) I would def use that 25.
My dropbox is 9gb and I dumped a lot of files to my harddrive to get it that low--so as to not pay.
I do a lot of observation and interview research, and would be able to use that space to backup the apps I use for that (I don't keep that stuff in iTunes).
So right now i could easily use 15gb, and would be able to fill the rest in a couple years. Just one example, but there you go.
 
Galatian said:
Ok...look Apple...it's not that I'm ungrateful...but I payed for push mail function with my mobile.me membership back then. You still have not brought that back to your German customers. Hotmails offers that for free...
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That's because of a lawsuit against Apple.
 
ITGuy said:
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.

-ITG
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It's possible that iDisk wasn't a very popular part of the MM package, and that this is why they dropped it when they put together iCloud from the remains of MM. It wasn't popular with me anyway... But that's for historical reasons. When I first got iDisk many years ago I was creeped out by the idea of cloud storage, plus iDisk was slow as molasses, glitchy and weird.
Almost exactly when I started using cloud storage regularly, they ditched MobileMe and iDisk along with it. If they relaunched it today I'd be all over it. ;)
 
While I appreciate being given the extra capacity, its virtually no use for me for two reasons:

* There aren't enough applications that I use that actually support iCloud ( in fact, the number of applications that actually support iCloud is very low, after 12 months + )
* iCloud isn't usable in the same way as Dropbox or iDisk et al.
 
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Bring back iDisk

briansolomon said:
Cool, can I have my iDisk back now? :rolleyes:
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Yes, iDisk was more useful cloud storage, you were in control of what went in it not Apple. I suspect not anywhere near as many people have paid for an upgrade as originally envisaged having gone to DropBox or others.
 
Looks like Apple sought a kind gesture to make to its users, maybe partly in response to the Maps situation. It's nice that a company will do that. Unfortunately, I wonder if this was a rushed action: It comes after iCloud users would have had to respond to the Sept 30 deadline by either paying to expand their capacity, or sorting out how to reduce their content to something less than the free 5GB limit. For some people like myself, cruising below the 5GB level, it does no harm and gives us the opportunity to store more--but by being below the limit in the first place, we seem self-selected as the group most likely not to need it. I'm guessing a substantial number of users would see this not as too little, but too late.
 
orthorim said:
Your sig says you have a 32GB iPhone?! Seems like it would be possible to use 25GB for backup, then.
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KnightWRX said:
iCloud doesn't backup applications in your data quota, nor would everyone use iTunes in the Cloud (some people might actually enjoy their music skip free).
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Quite.

Apps can only back up data that cannot be recovered any other way. Stuff that wouldn't be backed up:

-Podcasts (if you use a third party Podcast application)
-Music (if you use something like Spotify)
-Videos (if you use a third party video App)
-Books (if you use something like Kindle)
-Cached content (e.g. photos in Facebook)

If you use the Apple versions of these products (e.g. iBooks and Podcasts) then your content is backed up elsewhere (e.g. your computer's iTunes library).

"iTunes in the Cloud" is really nothing to do with iCloud.

Hence my iPhone with 16.5GB of data on it results in a backup of ~450MB.
 
It surprises me how many people are posting about how 5 FREE gigs aren't enough. It's not a service you're entitled to. The whole strategy is for customers to use up the free amount quickly and then feel like they need to pay more for the features it offers.
 
"WE NEED SOME GOOD PR!" ... "Let's give those Mobile-whatever people some storage for a little while longer."
 
I am still trying to work out what iCloud is all about. I tried using it for iWork document storage instead of Dropbox only to find it removed some vital features from my Numbers documents after I opened them on my iPhone (ie filtering etc had disappeared after that even in OS X). So I'm back to using Dropbox.

IDisk was unreliable and slow (in contrast to Dropbox which is fast and absolutely solid).

So if there are many other people like me, I suspect Apple is just trying to give us time to work out whether iCloud has any potential.

At the moment it looks like a mediocre school IT project.
 
Apple has become so successful that they really have to watch their back now. They are under more scrutiny and the iOS maps issues are still fresh in the public eye. Bad time to be dinging people for more GBs. More people than ever want to hold them accountable to higher and fairer standards, and rightly so.

5GB of space is so 2005, and given the ever-increasing data needs caused by Apple's progress (retina, camera/video, app features, etc.), they need to increase free space now, and all along the way.

I like this idea offered in this discussion: Give an increment of space per each device owned. Makes sense that if you have 4 devices you have paid for more for the "free" space than someone who has one device. And perhaps offer more space per a MacBook than per an iPad, and more per an iPad than per an iPhone.
 
As many others here, I really miss iDisk and I submitted suggestions to apple long before they discontinued the service in hopes to keep it. I urge everyone to submit suggestions to Apple and tell them how much you like and miss iDisk.
Apple provides services for customers and if we don't tell them what we'd like how will they know?

I also saw that I was receiving 20 gigs complementary until 2050 and now they reneged and only extended to 2013? I don't think thats very fair.
 
davidjearly said:
Apple offer something for free, and people complain.

Unbelievable. Good job, Apple.
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I can't speak for everyone else, but not complaining, just expressing that it's a "gift" of no value to me given iCloud's features, or lack thereof. And it's not a "it's the thought that counts" situation either. Apple's not doing this out of generosity. Clearly something screwed up when they attempted to reset everyone's acct on Oct 1, which is why we initially got 50 years of 20GB. Still, they'll get good PR out of it, so don't cry for Apple.

Me? I'd gladly exchange my $40 valued 20GB for a $19 Lightning cable. Now that I could use. And Apple can keep the change.
 
First freebie

I think it's awesome Apple gave us something for free. Between my iPads and iPhones (2 only use the 5GBs, other 2 almost hit the 25' thanks to iTunes Match I don't need as much room).
I say thank you Apple. It's cool you helped out your old MobileMe customers. Plus some of us lost some cool features. Thankfully I stopped using pre iCloud.
 
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