I use also Dropbox ... And iCloud. And Google Drive. And SkyDrive ... Some for the platform specific syncs and some for interoperability.
Why would Apple want to "stay in the competition" when they don't make any money from it?
Get acquainted with a German and you'll figure out why pretty quickly.Can't they write a menu in German? Why does it have to be fake American/Italian?
Until other services are able to hook into ios to the point where one can easily have device backups, iCloud will be the sole service that users can turn to. And unless that happens, apple has no incentive to really be competitive in this area.I think those prices are reasonable, if they would have been annual instead of monthly. I don't understand why they're charging so much when I have 1 TB free from Box sync, another 1 TB from Flickr, and whatever Dropbox and minus.com are giving me for free.
To answer my own question: no, it's not shared. Upgraded two devices with two separate iCloud accounts and enabled Family Sharing. Upgraded storage to 200 GB plan on iPhoneA and it is correctly displaying 195/200GB used, but iPhoneB shows 2/5GB used... womp womp. Please Apple, allow storage space to be shared, or at least be explicit about it not being shared. Family Sharing seems very promising and this is my first expectation about it in which i was let down.
If you use a U.S. IP address you get it cheaper $9.99
You're paying too much for coffee.200GB of integrated cloud storage at the price of a coffee every month is a nectar sweet deal for me!![]()
I was going to switch it (I'll save $8 a year and get 5GB more), I have to do something by the end of the month anyways, and noticed that my upgrade pages specifically points out that I will lose my legacy plan and I will not have the option to return to my legacy plan.
Any reasons I should keep it?
I agree, but if you wanted 1024GB on iCloud it would cost 19.99. That's a big difference and shows that apple hasn't lost the art of sticking it to their customers.
thats not a stand alone app. thats the interface which opens when you try to gain access to a file within a supported app
So you're telling me I can't browse my files unless I'm in the actually app?
yep and it sucks. apple simply doesnt like any sort of file managers
£15.99 a year on mediafire for 1TB
Beat that!
Google Drive offers 1TB for $9.99/month
You're paying too much for coffee.
It's a pain (specially being a student) I have to bear on my back. Europe is (sometimes) expensive.
I believe your first sentence answers my question. I already have the Time Capsule that stores all my Time Machine backups locally so if I can configure it to also back up to iCloud Drive, then I am all set. Now I just need to upgrade to a higher tier data storage size. Thanks for the info.