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Apple Intelligence Home Features Require 2TB iCloud+ Plan in iOS 27

sublunar said:
I think it was inevitable that they'd start to put some things behind an iCloud storage tier, like a cable subscription of old before streamers broke that model only to become the villains later on with ever increasing costs. For what it's worth, there's a point to this - I just think iCloud storage to some degree is useful for a variety of things - they could use it to sweeten the Apple Creator Studio bundle for instance.

I would say that One Drive is a major part of what makes Office 365 a good value - Apple should consider doing the same with the Creator Studio.

Of course, it also needs a Home Hub. Makes you wonder where the rumoured iMac G4 style device is up to and how it'll be priced considering what happened to the 3rd gen 4k Apple TV...
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HomeKit Secure Video already required an iCloud storage tier because the videos were kept in iCloud and did not count towards the storage used in your storage plan. To offset the cost of hosting those videos, they required a storage plan. This has been the case for many years. I had four cameras in my old home, so I was familiar already with the iCloud storage limits. Back then I needed the 2TB tier to have four cameras, but since then, Apple increased the number of cameras. My iPhoto library was 1.2TB, so I already had a 2TB plan long before I started using HomeKit cameras.

I just looked it up now and the 50GB iCloud plan is required for a single HomeKit Secure Video camera. Five cameras are included in the 200GB plan and unlimited are allowed on the 2TB plan.

Since you can’t even have a single camera without at least the 50GB plan, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that these new HomeKit features require an iCloud storage plan.
 
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tobybrut said:
This actually makes sense. For those who didn’t know, it required a 2TB plan prior to Apple Intelligence features to have support for unlimited numbers of HomeKit cameras (there was an old limit of 5, but that was replaced with unlimited). Smaller plans had limitations of 1 or 2 cameras. Having a feature that stitches together multiple cameras makes sense for the 2TB plan since you needed that plan to have a lot of cameras in the first place.
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Spot-on analysis. That makes a lot of sense. Sadly, many here will still be outraged, even if it doesn't apply to them.
 
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All these folks so upset that everything in the world isn't free. Can't understand that things that require constant AI usage cost companies money and therefore they can't provide them for free.

How dare they not give me everything at no cost at all!
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Sadly... that's the way things are today, many believing they're entitled to free stuff. And then having a tantrum if they don't get it.
 
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Apple MessagePad said:
All these folks so upset that everything in the world isn't free. Can't understand that things that require constant AI usage cost companies money and therefore they can't provide them for free.

How dare they not give me everything at no cost at all!
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I have yet to see a comment where someone's expecting these things for free. If anything the majority wants localized hardware and more control over their data vs a product that will see price increases and zero flexibility.
 
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TheMountainLife said:
I have yet to see a comment where someone's expecting these things for free. If anything the majority wants localized hardware and more control over their data vs a product that will see price increases and zero flexibility.
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Yeah but anyone is welcome to set up their own local LLM if they want. Gonna need a powerful machine with a LOT of RAM / probabaly a Nvidia 5090 or whatever would be helpful. $9 starts to sound cheap in comparison to what that would cost.
 
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capamac said:
"AI" does have a very high energy, IT and water use cost associated with it, so it makes sense to charge. Even this $9/month plan probably isn't fully covering the "AI" cost, given that Ed Zitron argues the other LLM companies are providing "AI" to customers below actual cost, which is why they're primed to go under.

Plus, the "AI" features are fairly silly and useless. The whole thing is heavily over-hyped.
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They overspent building those mass survellience data centers. If AMD's Ryzen AI Halo takes off for local LLM use, the bubble will pop that much faster.
 
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capamac said:
Yeah but anyone is welcome to set up their own local LLM if they want. Gonna need a powerful machine with a LOT of RAM / probabaly a Nvidia 5090 or whatever would be helpful. $9 starts to sound cheap in comparison to what that would cost.
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...What bro no lol. Don't spit ball unless you know what you're talking about. "Smart" NVR's/DVR's have existed for awhile now along with many other AIO passthrough setups. Stop taking the bait
 
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Everyone can relax. At the very last minute, literally as they were seeding OS 27 Beta 3, Apple discovered iCloud with less than 2 TB just wasn’t able to truly delight customers. So, Apple had to pull it. Believe you me, this caught Apple completely by surprise. They had no idea iCloud 50 GB and 200 GB weren’t able to take things to the next level. Fortunately, Apple quickly discovered the secret when their crack PR team drove the bus and discovered a game-changing 2 TB plan.

One more thing…. The 2 TB plan is available NOW! Apple thinks you’re gonna love it.

But seriously, we’re in SpaceApple 2: The Search for More Money. Expect Apple to continue to make loud noise about features and then quietly lock them behind higher and higher subscriptions.
 
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