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Apple Launches New 6TB and 12TB iCloud+ Plans

I’ve used 160gb I’m trying to get it back to 150, I don’t want to upgrade my storage. It’s such a big price jump
 
HobeSoundDarryl said:
My advice is to shoot home movies at highest resolution option you can as you won't be able to come back later to re-capture them when even 4K is considered inferior/blurry. Dump the footage to cheap & big HDDs. Edit it and dump the scraps/rejected clips that you'll never want to see again. Then render the best resolution copy with desired level of compression as a master file for long-term storage... and- in support of the data miser concept today- perhaps a 1080p/30fps for your iDevice too.

Then you can enjoy not using much space on today's iDevice WITHOUT any future regrets you would have captured old 2023-24 moments in better resolution.

I have quite the collection of family home movies dating way back into the past. Most were shot on the best equip available to consumers, which unfortunately means old standards look pretty poor on modern screens. I would pay a lot to send today's cameras back to those points in time to get a good 4K version of all of that footage. Since I presume the next generation would feel the same about the quality we can shoot today on future screens, I generally shoot all at highest resolution available. Hard drives are cheap and can HOLD a lot of 4K video, especially edited & rendered H.265 after jettisoning the bits not worth keeping.

Nobody feels much about this in the present. It's in the future where it will increasingly matter.
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This is 100% accurate. That way I can enjoy the high-quality videos of my family for years to come.
 
Timo_Existencia said:
Legitimate anti-trust issues have nothing to do with what I said. I support legitimate anti-trust investigations.
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You said, "Criticizing Apple for not providing free stuff is not a legitimate criticism of a for-profit business" and then "I'd add to that this ongoing criticism of Apple's method of operation vis-a-vis the closed Eco System. Buyers have options."

How does buyers having options make criticisms of Apple's method of operating not "legitimate"? People can like a product enough to buy or use it over other options while still also have "legitimate" criticisms of that product or the company's method of operations whether it be Apple with iOS, Google with search, Microsoft with Windows, etc.
 
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Timo_Existencia said:
Because as you have done repeatedly on multiple threads, you conflate monopoly practices with non-monopoly practices. But I'm not interested in debating this with you anymore.
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I don't conflate "monopoly" practices with "non-monopoly" practices and as far as duopolies are concerned, antitrust laws can apply there as well. Also, antitrust laws and regulations can vary by country, region, etc. You mistakenly seem to think there is or has to be one set legal definition.

And none of this necessarily has anything to do with people having or not having "legitimate" criticisms of a company's method of operation which brings me back to my last post:

You said, "Criticizing Apple for not providing free stuff is not a legitimate criticism of a for-profit business" and then "I'd add to that this ongoing criticism of Apple's method of operation vis-a-vis the closed Eco System. Buyers have options."

How does buyers having options make criticisms of Apple's method of operating not "legitimate"?
 
Bryan Bowler said:
This is the perfect response that needs to be attached to every post on here that says "why not just buy a 12TB hard drive?"

I personally run 52TB of storage at home and that is backed up to another onsite 52TB array and I also have a 3rd off-site set of storage that is stored 1,100 miles away and updated once every 60 days. It takes a lot of work, management, and time to accomplish this. If you have a need to run high amounts of data space in the cloud or you don't want to be bothered with properly backing up your data, then what Apple is offering can be a good deal. (Except for maybe the Apple premium pricing...but there is value if you're squarely within the Apple ecosystem.)
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Put another way: 12TB of local storage is cheap until you lose 12TB of data.
 
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TeamMojo said:
it should't be almost double just to upgrade the storage.
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tl;dr: I'm poor and/because Apple are sadistically greedy

Firstly, no. No it shouldn't. No it absolutely shouldn't be double just to upgrade the storage. No it very much definitely is absolutely a travesty that they are proposing to charge - no, ROB - their top Apple One customers for storage like this.

Secondly, but of course it is double just to upgrade the storage. This is Apple. I think Apple execs can't sleep at night if they aren't getting a 10x markup on storage space across majority of their business.

I am such a sucker that I love most of what Apple makes and does. I am one of those annoying people who still really follows the company, as opposed to, I dunno, just part of the general population (I remember the early 2010s fondly for that).

But they make it so hard to go all in like I'd like to. I'd love to have Apple One, and 6TB of storage, to support me and my TikToking 87 year old mother (I know, I know I will be answering for that on judgment day) for our cloud storage needs.

But even if I COULD afford those prices, .... well ok I would just buy it if I could afford it but I can't imagine what sort of Chris could actually pay these nonsensical, the "inefficiency of scale" prices that really just feel abusive. They feel mean. I'm still paying off the ridiculous amount that I had to pay to get 1TB of onboard storage on my iPhone and don't ask how many handjobs I have to give out per day for the onboard storage I needed on my MacBook Pro. (It meant ridiculously overspeccing the rest of the SoC as well of course)

I think I may have lost the thread there, but that's what blind, mouth foaming, injustice smacking, anger swallowing RAGE will do to even the softest of nerds after decades of being absolutely f_____g REAMED for every last bit of data, whether it be RAM or storage.... this is what it will do to you.
 
My current iCloud usage.

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Will probably be a little less at the end of the year when I do my annual cleanse.
 
webkit said:
You said, "Criticizing Apple for not providing free stuff is not a legitimate criticism of a for-profit business" and then "I'd add to that this ongoing criticism of Apple's method of operation vis-a-vis the closed Eco System. Buyers have options."

How does buyers having options make criticisms of Apple's method of operating not "legitimate"? People can like a product enough to buy or use it over other options while still also have "legitimate" criticisms of that product or the company's method of operations whether it be Apple with iOS, Google with search, Microsoft with Windows, etc.
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Commonsense doesn't work for fanboys. They prefer to follow the noise and trends.
 
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