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Apple's New iCloud Pricing Announced: 20GB for $0.99, 200GB for $3.99 and 1TB for $19.99

"Apple's top tier storage, 1TB, costs just $19.99 per month, slightly more than Dropbox's new $9.99/month price for 1TB storage."

Come on Macrumors. The cost for 1TB is double what Dropbox charges, not "slightly more."
 
I'm confused on how this will work, exactly.

Right now, with 5GB, only iCloud backups and documents/data count towards the 5GB limit. Photostream does not count.

With iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive, would iCloud photos still be free? Would Photostream still exist? And, would the 5GB include backups, photos, and iCloud drive? How exactly will it all work?
 
engg2000 said:
Slightly?
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LMAO!! that's what I was thinking when I read that. thats twice as much, I wouldn't call that slightly.


and what the heck happened to 100gb? 20gb is pushing it for me but 200gb is waaaay too much.
 
I'd better like something like this:

10GB free (or even better, 10GB per device free)

+
flexible, unlimited extension
$0.99 for every next 100GB.

For example, if you need 300GB, you pay 3x$.0.99. It you need 2TB, you pay 20x$0.99... And so on...
 
ladytonya said:
I pay $20/year for 10 GB so I have a total of 15 and iTunes just charged my yearly fee a few weeks ago. For only $12/year I could have 20GB? I hope they upgrade current customers to an equivalent storage amount!
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Exactly.....they better give me a refund for this
 
I was holding out on upgrading my Dropbox to the 1TB Pro account, but it seems like I have no choice now…Looks like I'll be doing the 1TB Dropbox account and a 200GB iCloud account. This way I have Dropbox for all of my files that I want synced, but still have PLENTY of room for pics and videos on the 128GB iPhone I'll be purchasing in addition to my 64GB iPad and 64GB iPod Touch and (probably) :apple:Watch. Seems like the sweet spot for storage, and if need be, I can have Dropbox to fall back on for pic/video uploads. Win-win :apple:
 
BreuerEditor said:
I was holding out on upgrading my Dropbox to the 1TB Pro account, but it seems like I have no choice now…Looks like I'll be doing the 1TB Dropbox account and a 200GB iCloud account. This way I have Dropbox for all of my files that I want synced, but still have PLENTY of room for pics and videos on the 128GB iPhone I'll be purchasing in addition to my 64GB iPad and 64GB iPod Touch and (probably) :apple:Watch. Seems like the sweet spot for storage, and if need be, I can have Dropbox to fall back on for pic/video uploads. Win-win :apple:
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I don't get it. Why not buy a router with USB and plug in a HD? Much cheaper in the long term. For $240 that apple wants for 1TB, you could easily buy both and use it for years.
 
Freyqq said:
I don't get it. Why not buy a router with USB and plug in a HD? Much cheaper in the long term. For $240 that apple wants for 1TB, you could easily buy both and use it for years.
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  • Ability to instantly access your data on your devices, no matter where you are.
  • Reliability of a system that always has your data, no matter whether your hard drive crashed, phone got lost/broken, house burned down, etc.
  • Various other integrative services provided by iCloud.

That's just three, pretty compelling reasons.
 
Was thinking the same thing. Why does the author feel the need to spin? It is double the price. Why include the word "just 19.99" and "slightly more" when everyone can see right through it? The author loses all credibility.

-cole- said:
So double price is only "slightly more"? :confused:
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MacRumors said:
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All of those prices should stay the same but the storage options should shift down one. So 20 GB free and 2 TB for $19.99.
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MacRumors said:
200GB of storage costs $3.99 per month, and 500GB is $9.99 per month. Apple's top tier storage, 1TB, costs just $19.99 per month, slightly more than Dropbox's new $9.99/month price for 1TB storage.
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$240/year is not slightly more than $120/year.
 
rdlink said:

  • [1]Ability to instantly access your data on your devices, no matter where you are.

    [2]Reliability of a system that always has your data, no matter whether your hard drive crashed, phone got lost/broken, house burned down, etc.

    [3]Various other integrative services provided by iCloud.

That's just three, pretty compelling reasons.
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1. most routers include that functionality
2. RAID 1,5,etc and/or keep a local backup
3. most of the integrated services are for things that don't use a lot of storage, or storage is kept separate from the total for data.
 
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nutmac said:
$240/year is not slightly more than $120/year.
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And actually it's $240/year vs. $99/year because Dropbox offers a fairly significant discount on yearly pricing.

So yeah, 2.4x as expensive is definitely not "slightly more".
 
It costs just $20 per month which is slightly more than 10 per month? Who wrote this? That's twice as much, which qualifies as a lot more than "slightly" in my book.
 
xtwentyseven said:
Can anyone on iOS 8.0 DP tell us if these prices are live on 8.0?
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They're not showing up on my device yet. They briefly (like 1/5th of a second) showed up, greyed out, then switched back to the old 10/20/50 GB options. I don't think they'll go live until the 17th.
 
Freyqq said:
I don't get it. Why not buy a router with USB and plug in a HD? Much cheaper in the long term. For $240 that apple wants for 1TB, you could easily buy both and use it for years.
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on site storage isnt the same use case as off site back up. really?
 
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If dropbox is $99/year for a Tb, then that comes out to $8.25/month, not ten bucks. Just sayin'
 
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