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I find myself saying this about the 50GB tier, as I am getting alerts I am running out of space.

Curious to know what would happen to all my pics, data etc. if I suddenly downgraded to the free 5GB…
That would disappear from iCloud after about a month, according to 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.
Not easy dealing with some older relatives or some relatives at any age :) . However, if someone can afford to have one or more Apple devices, especially someone who is comfortably middle class, and they balk at paying 79 cents a month to hopefully safeguard their photos and messages, there are bigger issues. But I understand. I use Google 1 for about 20 Euros a year and iCloud for 99 cents a month.
 
Some people do not have a Mac to back their devices up on, though, whereas iCloud is kind of there for all at all times, which is one of its biggest advantages, IMO.
You can copy photos to any computer, really, if you so desire.
 
Maybe? I haven’t checked in a while, thus I could be wrong, but want to say one could increase by 2TB chunks beyond 4TB. Again, could be wrong.
I believe it stops at 4 TB, according to what Apple has on their site.
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2TB per year is £108, or $137 USD. A 2TB SSD cost $100 USD (link). An enclosure costs about 20 bucks. Or a basic 2TB HDD external with enclosure is $48 (link).

Why does anyone need this? Makes more sense to just buy an external drive and have it always available at way faster speeds than whatever data connection your limited to.
 
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Why does anyone thinks they are entitled to freebies or subsidies? This is just economy, stupid...
 
2TB per year is £108, or $137 USD. A 2TB SSD cost $100 USD (link). An enclosure costs about 20 bucks. Or a basic 2TB HDD external with enclosure is $48 (link).

Why does anyone need this? Makes more sense to just buy an external drive and have it always available at way faster speeds than whatever data connection your limited to.
It's a different type of service.
 
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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.
You need three friends to whom you do not care about sharing all your files (well only the account owner gets access to all the files) and is also the only one who can request more storage (it does not happen automatically, one needs to request it). Finally, the account owner needs to charge the service and collect the money for each of the other users (not a hardship, but not nothing either), and if either of the other users violates the terms of service, all the accounts are shut down. However, one can back up one’s iPhone there.
 
2TB per year is £108, or $137 USD. A 2TB SSD cost $100 USD (link). An enclosure costs about 20 bucks. Or a basic 2TB HDD external with enclosure is $48 (link).

Why does anyone need this? Makes more sense to just buy an external drive and have it always available at way faster speeds than whatever data connection your limited to.
If you have no understanding of why someone would need a Cloud backup solution then this thread is too much for you.
 
Apple has increased the price of iCloud storage in several regions around the world, including the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South America.

Pricing in the United States, Canada, and European Union remains the same.

Someone at Macrumors needs a geography lesson or needs to be more precise.
 
My backups of my phone are local
So, not accessible or updatable if you are not home, and no real protection from a drive failure, fire or malware.
I just prefer to trade some convience for not having a subscription, which might be a rough trade-off for some people.
Convenience, reliability, and security. Again, if you do not really care about your data, totally reasonable solution.
 
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Love coming to these threads and see people whining about 3 quid.
It's less about that, it's more because Apple had revenue of $385 billion dollars last year and is still increasing prices.

That's more than a billion dollars of revenue a day. They're just being greedy.
 
@MR Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania and Denmark are in the European Union by the way ;) I guess what you mean is "Pricing in the EURO zone remains the same"
Exactly. I was bothered when I read that. Journalism at its finest.
 
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