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Apple Hikes iCloud+ Subscription Prices in Many Countries Around the World
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The price increase in Sweden is perhaps somewhat justifiable as the Swedish Krona has tanked. Even Finns are going to Sweden to buy groceries.
Because your favorite company is addicted to greed. Stop supporting them.
not anytime soon, otherwise they would've done it all at the same time.
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.
If you have no understanding of why someone would need a Cloud backup solution then this thread is too much for you.
So, not accessible or updatable if you are not home, and no real protection from a drive failure, fire or malware.
Convenience, reliability, and security. Again, if you do not really care about your data, totally reasonable solution.
Yes, but people are voting with their wallets and cancelling subscriptions left, right & centre. So the consumer is only prepared to spend so much on subs.
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Never seen that many assumptions in a single post, bravo.
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.
Exactly. I was bothered when I read that. Journalism at its finest.@MR Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania and Denmark are in the European Union by the way
Wondering how many petabytes will be freed up once this is disabled.