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

No price is worth it, unless I can encrypt all files myself, with my own encryption key before they are sent and without Apple being able to decrypt them.

Otherwise, you've just opened yourself up to anyone that wants to control/manage/punish you (government) or steal (hackers) from you by knowing your personal details.
 
CooKieMoNs7eR said:
they should have an option between the 20 GB and the 200 GB.
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I agree. Give me $1.99 for 75GB and I'm in. $3.99 a month is a lot more and I don't know if I'll even use the 200GB.

Otherwise they're just getting 99 cents from me! (Hopefully this will be ready by the end of the month when I'm due for renewal).

I currently have the $20 a year for 15GB (total) plan; so I figure this $1.67 a month for 15GB and they're going to give me more for less (20GB for 99 cents a month [$11.92 a year]).

But for $1.99 if they gave me 75GB a month they'd be giving me way more and getting more money from me; psychologically the extra space for only 32 cents more a month would be hard to pass up! I might even consider it at $1.99 for 50GB....

Gary
 
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It's a step in the right direction. Are photos still "free"? Or does iCloud's Photo Library now use your iCloud storage?

iCloud pricing is not surprising. Apple plays in its own league and doesn't feel they need to compete on pricing with Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. Dropbox felt the same way until OneDrive and Google Drive started putting pressure on them.
 
No upper discount

It's odd there isn't any scaling in pricing at the upper end.

With pricing at 200GB for $3.99 and 1TB for $19.99, there is no discount. You're actually paying 4 cents more than just multiplying the price by 5.

Where with 20GB for $0.99 and 200GB for $3.99, you're getting 10 times the storage for about 4 times the price.

Gary
 
I can't believe all the whiners that just want stuff for free. Apple is a business. 5GB for free is very generous and more than enough for large portions of the user base. $12 a YEAR for 4x that amount - can't complain about that either.
 
Forgot about the photo storage

jaw04005 said:
It's a step in the right direction. Are photos still "free"? Or does iCloud's Photo Library now use your iCloud storage?
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I forgot all about that. I think most of the photos now take space.
The only free space might be the last 1000 photos.

So instead of charing you the monthly fee for the photo editing app (like Adobe) they're going to charge you for the convenience of the storage...

Gary
 
mattniles007 said:
"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."
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I've had Dropbox for 8 years and have 1TB storage (for $11/month CAD), and I'm using only 3.2% of the available space. Its the features and convenience that I'm paying for, not the storage space. People need to stop equating the price to the storage space alone.
 
Freyqq said:
1. most routers include that functionality
2. RAID 0 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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1. There is no way that your home network is going to be able to serve as seamlessly and robustly as Apple's.
2. So, now you're adding complexity, overhead and higher costs to the equation. What happened to cheap and simple? And local backups get burned up when your house does...
3. I think you're making assumptions. Wouldn't be surprised to find that the new "cheaper" cloud storage requires you to be responsible for the space of your own pictures, etc. Time will tell.
 
coolfactor said:
I can't believe all the whiners that just want stuff for free. Apple is a business. 5GB for free is very generous and more than enough for large portions of the user base. $12 a YEAR for 4x that amount - can't complain about that either.
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No one is saying that.

5GB is definitely not enough - especially if your backing up your iDevice to iCloud. That 5gb goes very quickly.
 
coolfactor said:
I can't believe all the whiners that just want stuff for free. Apple is a business. 5GB for free is very generous and more than enough for large portions of the user base.
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I sort of agree, 5GB has been enough PER DEVICE for large portions of the user base (personally, I have multiple apps turned off for backup on my iPad and still exceed 5GB with that one device). But if you're a loyal customer with multiple devices, you still only get 5GB TOTAL that's really not all that much for iDevice backups.

Plus, if there are changes with SHARED photo streams (if it now takes up iCloud storage), it's even less than it was before. Someone just mentioned this but I can't remember the specifics from the WWDC announcement.

Gary
 
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rdlink said:
1. There is no way that your home network is going to be able to serve as seamlessly and robustly as Apple's.
2. So, now you're adding complexity, overhead and higher costs to the equation. What happened to cheap and simple? And local backups get burned up when your house does...
3. I think you're making assumptions. Wouldn't be surprised to find that the new "cheaper" cloud storage requires you to be responsible for the space of your own pictures, etc. Time will tell.
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There are also unique advantages. You have direct access to all your storage and can scale it up as needed. Also, over home wifi, your transfer speeds are not limited by internet bandwidth and speeds. For instance, my internet provider limits per month data to 300gb. So, it would take over 3 months to even transfer all the data to the cloud. With home wifi AC or Ethernet, you also have near native transfer speeds.
 
iCloud in its current iteration can't stream. That alone is enough reason for me to stick with dropbox (which, I might add, is backing up my entire hard drive with the new 1tb plan).
 
CooKieMoNs7eR said:
they should have an option between the 20 GB and the 200 GB.
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I agree, I am fine with the prices, but, just like Dropbox, they don't have enough options.

Why do you even have to pick a tier? It's ridiculous. Why can't you just say "I want X gigabytes" and it gives you a price for that?

If they must have tiers, something like this would be better IMO:

15 GB
40 GB
100 GB
300 GB
1 TB
 
So the price is roughly double what competitors are charging, which seems absurd.

I wish Apple would at least offer family plan to split paid storage across family members.

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Sandstorm said:
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...
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That makes a good deal of sense, but only gotcha is some folks may hold onto devices they no longer use to get additional free storage.

If you ask me, I think Apple should simplify the pricing by offering 100GB free, which should be enough for general population. And for paid users, charge $100/year for each additional 1 TB. And as a bonus, throw in 1 TB with each Apple Care purchase.
 
Fortunately for me, I don't have enough Apple related files to store on their cloud, so I'll keep my Office365 Military Appreciation version for $70/year and have 1Tb of cloud storage for me, and each of my 4 friends/family get the same thing.



IOW, total of 5TB of storage and Office Premium.



A literal steal at that price!! :)
 
lparsons21 said:
Fortunately for me, I don't have enough Apple related files to store on their cloud, so I'll keep my Office365 Military Appreciation version for $70/year and have 1Tb of cloud storage for me, and each of my 4 friends/family get the same thing.



IOW, total of 5TB of storage and Office Premium.



A literal steal at that price!! :)
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Exactly. That $70-$100 annual subscription for Office 365 that everybody complains about is looking better and better value.
My family of five get Office on their MacBooks and iPhones/iPads, AND 1TB of OneDrive storage EACH for less than $9 per month total.
 
When am I able to get this pricing? I'm trying to buy some from my iPhone and still see the old pricing in there.
 
"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."

I know you want to be on Apple's side, but come on!!!:rolleyes:
 
I don't really understand why people are comparing iCloud pricing to Dropbox/Google/Microsoft/etc. iCloud is a sophisticated cloud platform whereas all the others are rudimentary cloud storage services. For this reason I'd pick iCloud every day of the week. And it's well worth the price premium.
 
Freyqq said:
1. most routers include that functionality
2. RAID 0 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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iCloud is meant for the 95% of users who need something that "just works"...ie, they log in, turn it on, and that's it.

The small minority who even know what a RAID 0 is or how to configure their router beyond just plugging it in are free to do what they wish. If that setup you mention is so easy then you're free to do that; no reason to complain about iCloud if such a better and simpler solution for you exists.
 
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