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Because it is not free. It is a trade off of money vs. data mining, vs. time to implement an alternative. If you are do not care about selling your data for so little money that it your right, as long as you understand the choice you are making.

It has been repeatedly debunked that Google sells individual data, it is pointless to Google.

Google does mine your data and does not offer you unlimited storage, as you are willing to pay them and still have your data mined.

I think you are claiming that Apple is mining my iCloud and mail data. If so, please provide some evidence of this.

Apple use Google as default search engine. Apple also use your data to send as within Apple's App, such as Apple Maps.0

Glad that you do not care about quality. Others do.

I choose to not get ads at all.

You can use ad-blocker...
 
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Does Apple prevent anyone from changing their default? Do they make it so one has to change it when one gets a new device? I have not had Google as my search engine for years, despite Google paying for the default position.
Most user will use Google search anyway and majority of user does not change default.

And according to you guys, Google will recoupe their investments by using your data when you searching on you iOS devices. So are you fine with Apple providing a way for Google mining your data? Come on.
 
How about upping that crappy 5GB of free storage to 25GB and double the capacity of the paid tiers. Capacities are a bloody joke in 2023 when you can buy a physical 1TB NVMe SSD for under £40!
 
How about upping that crappy 5GB of free storage to 25GB and double the capacity of the paid tiers. Capacities are a bloody joke in 2023 when you can buy a physical 1TB NVMe SSD for under £40!
I brought 1TB D-RAMlesd SSD for 30$. Not bad for storage devices
 
Another reason why I haven't nor will I ever pay for iCloud. What a joke of a service. 100gb of OneDrive storage is bundled with the $20 a year Microsoft Office 365 subscription.
Idk what you’re referring to, but through work I paid $70 a year and got 5-seats each with their own 1TB of storage, each with up to 5 devices using Microsoft 365.

The storage alone is a steal. Office is just an added perk.
 
Idk what you’re referring to, but through work I paid $70 a year and got 5-seats each with their own 1TB of storage, each with up to 5 devices using Microsoft 365.

The storage alone is a steal. Office is just an added perk.

It is Office 365 Basic. You get the web version of office with 100GB OneDrive. You are pretty much paying for OneDrive, since you can get free web version of office anyway.
 
I think it's only fair to increase prices as nobody else offers this level of storage. There simply is no competition for Apple.

Apple provides premium storage and you can trust it'll be virus free. I'm surprised they didn't run with their great campaign about "What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone".
 
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Stay with the free package and sync to your computer if you've got a problem. Or don't back up at all like most norms.
Geez people and they're I'm entitled to (fill in the blank) attitudes.
 
Here’s all the new prices that I found from GSMarena’s article:

BeforeNow
Storage50GB200GB2TB50GB200GB2TB
AustraliaA$1.49A$4.49A$14.99A$1.49A$4.49A$14.99
BrazilR$3.50R$10.90R$34.90R$4.90R$14.90R$49.90
CanadaC$1.29C$3.99$C12.99C$1.29C$3.99$C12.99
Czechia25 Kč79 Kč249 Kč25 Kč79 Kč249 Kč
Denmark7 kr25 kr69 kr9 kr25 kr89 kr
Euro€0.99€2.99€9.99€0.99€2.99€9.99
India₹75₹219₹749₹75₹219₹749
Norway10 kr29 kr99 kr12 kr39 kr129 kr
Poland3.99 zł11.99 zł39.99 zł4.99 zł14.99 zł49.99 zł
Türkiye6.49 TL19.99 TL64.99 TL12.99 TL39.99 TL129.99 TL
UK£0.79£2.49£6.99£0.99£2.99£8.99
US$0.99$2.99$9.99$0.99$2.99$9.99
A big hike in Turkey, but there inflation's been high for a long time. Argentina?
 
smart from apple where it goes from 200GB straight to 2TB without any option for 1TB. I have used like 130GB of 200GB and I know in the end I will need to add more down the line.
 
And here I was, thinking this trillion-dollar company was my close friend, and then it turns out they're just in it for the money? What next, is it going to come out that other huge corporations aren't just trying to turn a profit? Sad days.
It’s not about what they want (more profits) but their way of do it.

Why they don’t just give 10Gb for each type device. For instance: 10Gb for an iPhone (no matter if you have 27 different ones), 10Gb for an iPad, 10 for watch, Mac and appleVision…

People will surely keep their top tier subscription, but, at least someone who does not need it, will have storage for a basic iCloud copy for each device.
In fact, they could rise plans to 500gb, 1tb and 2tb.

Storage is cheaper than EVER!! And will be more and more. But Apple, is simply different
 
I can't believe they're still only giving 5GB free storage and 2TB is still the maximum plan. They need to upgrade their storage options. Every new iPhone increases the size of a video or photo
 
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