Apple to Offer Free Tier of iCloud Without Music Streaming? 'Aggressive' Pricing for Mac OS X Lion?

[steadysignal]

I believe it.

'Free cloud stuff' is where Google has Apple totally licked. I don't think Apple has any choice if they want to attack Android and Chromebooks head-on.

Yeah, charge for the music stuff, but contacts, calendars, Pages documents...all that stuff is eventually gonna have to be free for Macs and iOS devices if Apple wants to keep selling devices.

its not free over at google - you get bombarded with contextual advertisement.

i'd rather pay and see no adverts...

 

[dp1363]

iCloud

I am a huge Apple fan, but Apple is charging over the top prices for their products and services, and now they have been playing catch up to the competitition lately. It was more acceptable when we all payed over the top prices for their products, and they were the cutting edge of technology.

Now that the hardware components are the same as the Windows world there is no reason to charge so much. There is no reason apple cant take over the "Lion's" share of the computer market.

Offering iCloud for free would be a good start. I hope that will be the case.

 

[vespagirl]

agree... I actually still use @mac.com

So do I and I didn't change to @me.com a few years ago and really don't want to change to whatever the new one may be. I, too, am paid through early next year and I'm curious as to how they will handle their existing MobileMe account holders with this new launch.

 

[zedsdead]

The name to me doesn't matter at this point. I want a sync service that doesn't create duplicate contacts, and to have iDisk work as good as Dropbox. Not sure why this is so hard for Apple to achieve.