Let's not go crazy. Get rid of the 5, make the free base option 50, and shift the prices of everything else down one level.
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Apple Launches New 6TB and 12TB iCloud+ Plans
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Sometimes I wish I could share download links to folders or single files. Not sure why this isn’t possible yet.
Why are your messages THAT big?!
Surely you've download any relevent photos/videos to your library, and you dont need a copy in your messages app ? That's 3x the size of my photo library after 10 years !
I've actually tried most of them and currently subscribe to Backblaze, iDrive, and iCloud in addition to having a 64TB NAS. They are all different with various quirks, pros, and cons and target different applications. If you've actually used various storage options you'll quickly realize the naïveté of a comment like "storage is storage."
HobeSoundDarryl
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Yes, I take no issue with the greatness of iCloud. It is great. And it is thoroughly integrated making it "for dummies" easy too. There are MANY benefits to iCloud. I use the free iCloud space myself. I also use free Dropbox cloud space and sometimes Microsoft and Google space too.
The sole point is pricing and relative value. Those who find $30-$60/month worth it, great. Enjoy a great cloud service. Those who extrapolate that out for a few years and find it not worth spending so much, consider many other options... not as integrated and not necessarily as simple, but offering just as much storage in the sky for as little as $0 subscription fees.
I can sorta jump-in here. In my case, pictures date back to the 1st iPhone I had. Hence, my library has grown since 2007. Mind you, photo quality has increased as has the camera's capabilities and as such space consumption.
I hope the day comes where you can have your local iCloud Drive on an external drive. Until that day comes I’m gonna have to stick with Dropbox.
This is a bit of a mess with respect to Apple One Premier and Family sharing. Right now, you'd have to pay an additional $30 a month to go from 2TB to 6TB in Apple one on top of the $33 you are paying for Apple One. They should do a better job of integrating the two with an appropriate price break like $10 or $15 more a month to get to 3TB or 4TB, and acknowledge that Apple One Premier customers are their best customers spending the most per month, so it should't be almost double just to upgrade the storage. And the tiers are wrong. It's too big a jump from 2TB to 6TB and then 12TB. Should be more like 3TB, 4TB and 6TB.
While I bet that lower prices are coming, iCloud+ costs shouldn't be your biggest issue but its openness to certain practices disclosed in Snowden's leaks. I use it with fully acknowledging that whatever goes up into the cloud can be accessed by those with proper security clearance badges.
The fact that you can’t comprehend why means this is not for you. Don’t stress over it.
Fully agree but it is "worse" for unfortunate souls of us very old timers of apple services with 2 apple ID (one for icloud and one for puchases). If you only have one, you have the option to go to 4TB using apple one for another 10$ on top. That is not even an option for someone with 2 ID's... i'm about to run out of space and have no option to go to 4
Obviously this is never going to happen.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
You can. Look at some good NAS options. All generally have a cloud service that costs $0/month. You can have any amount of storage in your own cloud on NAS for $0/month after you pay for the cost of the NAS and starter drives.
I like my Synology but it's not the only NAS. I can add more storage any time I like. I can replace a smaller drive with a bigger drive if one dies or if I just want more storage. Etc.
It's easy to set up (execute a cloud setup wizard) and it can do a whole bunch of other things than only be a cloud box... including whole house Time Machine for all Macs, whole house DVR, whole house video security system, whole house audio & video server, etc.
I also use Dropbox (and free iCloud space) but mostly because both are free. If they went paid, I'd just use all "free" Synology NAS cloud... and save my $30-$60/month for future Apple hardware purchases. When an HDD occasionally dies in the NAS (one time in about 10 years now), I could replace it with another. With 12TB below $100 right now, that's less than 2 months of renting 12TB for what may be another 10 years of storage.
They need to increase the number of people/apple ids on the family account count… 6 does not cut it! This is ridiculous we need more than that. Some people use a different id for each device there should be a option for adding more apple ids or people
This is one of Apple's most blatant abuses of their customers. The interface is constantly trying to get you to backup to the cloud - but you can't! The hard drives start at 256 GB, and even the 200 GB tier is too small for that to work! Having your own hard drive, and syncing to it would be so much cheaper, but they make that as much of a pain as they can.
I choose the 6TB and now I have 8TB with Apple One.
I have over 5 months of photos stored in my iPhone and the 14,000 items started uploading to iCloud.
The collection of photos and videos in my iPhone are over 250,000 and the first photos were taken on the iPhone 4S on 2012.
I have over 5 months of photos stored in my iPhone and the 14,000 items started uploading to iCloud.
The collection of photos and videos in my iPhone are over 250,000 and the first photos were taken on the iPhone 4S on 2012.
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Yes.
This will be an easy upsell for those that are running low on their 2TB iCloud+ storage plan.
| Service | Price | Storage Space |
| iCloud+ 2TB | $10/month | 2TB |
| iCloud+ 6TB | $30/month | 6TB |
| Apple One Premier | $33/month | 2TB, but should be 4TB |
| Apple One Premier + 2TB | $43/month | 4TB, but should be 6TB |
Yes, because that would be efficient. Apple wants to make the sizes not fit so that you have to buy more than you need.