Dropbox is about $72 a month (plus tax, billed annually) for unlimited storage (one needs a minimum of three accounts and their Advanced plan). Certainly reasonable if one has tens or hundreds of terabytes, not so reasonable for smaller accounts.
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Apple Hikes iCloud+ Subscription Prices in Many Countries Around the World
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Your first point is nonsense, sorry.
But you are partially right on your second point. The customer doesn't matter to Apple; To a point.
Apple needs you, but they take control of you very cleverly. They indoctrinate you into an ecosystem that is very hard to escape from. (Imagine the cost of switching from Apple to Android. The cost is huge if you have invested significantly in products from Apple).
This is about a business being a business. Apple doesn't care if your wallet becomes empty as a result of using their products. They only care about their bottom line, but they do so by creating great products and using brilliant marketing and CRO geniuses.
Absolutely not true. Their stock would tank and the company's value would plummet. Their manufacturing partners would cease to exist, or the other option, they continue manufacturing and now there is a glut of Apple hardware in the warehouses. How to get rid of it all? Lower prices? It would be a disaster for Apple.
It used to be a bi-monthly phone call from one of my older relatives regarding the 5GB always being full. They don't want to lose all their photos and messages but also don't want to pay £0.79 per month despite being comfortably middle class.
In the end I turned off iCloud completely and Apple stops bothering them so they're happy.
To avoid loss of photos, I install Google Photos on their devices and remove the stock Apple Photos app, and boom, they have 15GB of privacy invasive storage which compresses everything into peanuts when it uploads while losing virtually no detail (not that they do anything but post photos to facebook anyway).
Practices such as this by Apple should be outlawed. They are far from the worst for doing such things but they know that a large percentage of their userbase know nothing about technology and are far too keen to prey on their fears for profit. They do the same with the 8GB RAM situation every year too.
In the end I turned off iCloud completely and Apple stops bothering them so they're happy.
To avoid loss of photos, I install Google Photos on their devices and remove the stock Apple Photos app, and boom, they have 15GB of privacy invasive storage which compresses everything into peanuts when it uploads while losing virtually no detail (not that they do anything but post photos to facebook anyway).
Practices such as this by Apple should be outlawed. They are far from the worst for doing such things but they know that a large percentage of their userbase know nothing about technology and are far too keen to prey on their fears for profit. They do the same with the 8GB RAM situation every year too.
More people that I know than ever are doing this. The $99/year 5 people family plan. Each person on the family plan gets their own 1TB of storage AND a full office suite of applications.
Agreed, I used it for awhile when I could use my own domain with iCloud email but problems with the Mail App and extremely tiny attachment limits and no to little spam management? I went back to fast mail. Gmail/Proton good alternatives too!
Plus they increase pixel count of the phones so the pictures will take up more storage. Basically the concept is: You can get a thin client cheap. We will ensure that using the thin client will require more storage than it has and that we can sell you that storage at a premium price
Edit: the thin client is not really cheap. Just relatively cheap
If you need a minimum of 3 accounts then you need 2 other buddies that also need tens of terabytes. Over $200/mo minimum outlay, and you still can't backup your iPhone there.
I would hope they inform those with recurring subscriptions of the increase prior to the next payment being taken.
iCloud pricing is very expensive for what you get (storage wise) but they can probably justify it with the integration into your devices which other services can’t provide even if they do offer you 10x more storage for less money etc.
Still, the pricing tiers make no sense. 5GB is useless, 200Gb not enough, 2TB too much and no increase in the tiers in ages.
I avoid it now and just back my phone up to the Mac instead.
Still, the pricing tiers make no sense. 5GB is useless, 200Gb not enough, 2TB too much and no increase in the tiers in ages.
I avoid it now and just back my phone up to the Mac instead.
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And to make it sweeter, if you keep an eye out, you can get the Family plan for $69 when it goes on sale through 3rd party resellers (Best Buy, Amazon, Newegg) multiple times a year. You can stack up to 5 annual subscriptions per account.
I share my 2 TB iCloud storage with 5 family members. I use over 1.4 TB and rest of the family uses around 200 GB. It’s worth every penny for me.
oo - didn't see that when I did a quick Google. I do like having the apps on my laptop though.
Plus, the web apps are actually free to use, so it's $20 / Fr.20 / £20 mainly for the 100GB.
You did not include the cost of egress (outbound data transfer).
I wish the idiots would do an annual price, pain in the ass getting an invoice for 99p every month,
btw Cook & co. I'm not getting my UK pension increased by 25% !
btw Cook & co. I'm not getting my UK pension increased by 25% !
I don’t see any iCloud storage price increase in Bulgaria so far. Check your information!
My backups of my phone are local and I don't use the cloud much for a variety of reasons. I also don't use any of Apple's services like their email or messages. It's not that I blame people for anything, I can fully understand why iCloud works really well for their use cases.
I just prefer to trade some convience for not having a subscription, which might be a rough trade-off for some people.
They had better increase the amount of that free 5GB of memory. 5GB is a ridiculously small amount for 2023.
Apple does offer more iCloud storage — up to 4 TB — IF you subscribe to the top tier Apple One plan!
I don't know how you could legally prevent price increases in business without destroying our entire market economy.
LOL. Their service doesn't even work as advertise. I put my file in the iCloud drive and has to wait a long time before it show up on my other device. Dropbox has been working instantly since 10 years ago. I don't know how Apple screw this up so badly. And they have the nerve to increase the price.
They should not be hiking the price at a time when GBPUSD is the highest it's been in a year.