This is possible if every device counts 2GB or 1GB. Saying if you have iPad iPhone MacBook iMac and Apple Watch you have 5 GB free storage. If you have only iPhone it is 1GB. Tim Cook will think this is a good idea to him.
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Apple Hikes iCloud+ Subscription Prices in Many Countries Around the World
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But they did, hence my post
„Similar increases have occurred in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania“
They did increase the iCloud+ prices for some countries that are not in the eurozone. I have a feeling that they would have increased the prices for the U.K even if it was in the EU because it's not in the eurozone, but this is just a wild guess. I hope I'm wrong.
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I’m in the US and to get the tier up from the 5GB cost-free tier is $0.99/month for 50GB which is ok. It’s even cheaper if you pay with your Apple Card since you would get 3% cash back ;-)
More end-stage capitalism tightening the grip on the stone… first outside the USA where American companies tend to start with it first (remember how much Australians were expected to pay for CDs compared to the USA?)… but it’ll happen here eventually. Wall Street pathology cannot be sated.
You can get 2,2 TB with iCloud 2TB and Apple One Family. It’s getting expensive😅😂
Just out of curiosity, if I was to buy the lower tier storage for family which has 200gb, can I still pay for the extra 2TB?"After you’ve subscribed to Apple One, you can buy more iCloud storage if you need more. With both Apple One and an iCloud+ plan, you can have up to 4 TB of total iCloud storage."
What happens to your iCloud storage when you sign up for Apple One – Apple Support (UK)
Apple One is designed to give you the best value for your Apple services. If you already pay for an iCloud+ plan, find out what happens when you sign up for Apple One.support.apple.com
In Norway there's just one Apple One Family tier (with 200 GB storage), so I'm not 100% sure how it works in the UK, but as far as I understand it: Yes, you can buy the Apple One Family with 200 TB, then add 2 TB iCloud+ on top of that...
Not sure if I would need that extra 2TB now, when the family plan offers 200TB
I'm sure someone would still complain...Not sure if I would need that extra 2TB now, when the family plan offers 200TB
It's weird that your phrasing it as entitlement rather than thinking about the enhanced user experience. I already pay for the 2TB plan so I don't need the free option. I'm smart enough to know that 5GB isn't enough for anyone to do anything though
Apple as a business, especially under tim cook, is about making money even from the user experience.
And it’s exactly that - getting you hooked on the automated backups to iCloud, which works fine for your first iPhone with little data on it. As soon as you take more photos, collect more data, iCloud capacity will not be enough and you want to purchase more storage to keep backing up, perhaps only to stop the nagging and you are too lazy to delete some stuff.
Apple knows that users tend to keep their phones longer these days and no longer buy a new model each year. They also know that peak iPhone is near. So they try to stabilize their income with subscriptions. See above, they are in the business to make money.
what a scam. 50 gigabytes was already a joke at the previous price, that **** fills up with images and videos in no time. thanks, apple
There’s a difference between making money and trying to have *all the money*, with exploitative prices and manipulative marketing & development practices. The quality of Apple software has gone downhill very much since 2013. We aren’t getting “better value” for greater/more frequent expense.
This is the staple of cloud... Get you hooked with free introductions, get you to rely on it, then before you know it, you realize you can't live without it and it costs and arm and a leg. Business 101.
As far as the comments about Google offering 15GB and Apple 5.... Google is a company that sells advertisements and mines data to sell, so obviously it has a lot more to gain from offering more storage space vs Apple which makes their $ from selling hardware (though this is rapidly changing with the Services category making more and more $).
As far as the comments about Google offering 15GB and Apple 5.... Google is a company that sells advertisements and mines data to sell, so obviously it has a lot more to gain from offering more storage space vs Apple which makes their $ from selling hardware (though this is rapidly changing with the Services category making more and more $).
Dear Apple,
Please bring iCloud backup to the Mac lineup. At least the settings should be backed up to iCloud and some other basic things....
I know I am in minority here but I would love a variant of Mac backup to iCloud.