Have you looked at your monthly data usage? We don't have a cap (Spectrum), but the most we have ever used in a month was 550gb, that's with two adults and a teen and pre-teen. We average around 300-400gb/month.
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Are We Free From Price Increases to Apple Services This Year?
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Have you looked at your monthly data usage? We don't have a cap (Spectrum), but the most we have ever used in a month was 550gb, that's with two adults and a teen and pre-teen. We average around 300-400gb/month.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
I'm thinking that person must be thinking about the first "sync" or "dump" to the cloud, where someone could easily have multiple TBs of files. However, I'm guessing they think Xfinity's cap counts at all times and not necessarily realizing that doing the first big upload/dump to cloud at home (locally) won't even use 1 Byte of it.
But even if they know this and are creating or consuming more than 1.2TB of data "on the go", the likely much better solution for them than using any kind of cloud service is a portable drive. There are pocketable 5TB drives for < $100 or even faster 8TB m.2 in a tiny iPod-like case for less than $1K. If me and I had that much need to move huge data > 1.2TB every month, I'd be on those trains vs. leaning on cloud options.
And If I worried about the security of the portable drive, I'd either carry TWO+ of them (mirroring each other) and/or synch chunks of that data back to home store via an ethernet connection to minimize the throttling pains. For instance, when traveling, connect in the hotel room (ethernet) each night (or when I can) and ship a big block of more important data home.
And if I was too remote for any ethernet option at all, I might have 5 or 6 such drives along, mirror files as I go and then drop one off at DTS/FEDEX/Mail at points during the trip to ship each drive back. Even if 1 or 2 didn't make it, it's unlikely that all wouldn't make it. And each one in the latter pool would have all of the newly-created data that were shipped on the earlier drives.
If I get home with that final drive, I could just dump all of the "new" to my Synology without involving Xfinity at all, then clear all of my "on the road" drives to be ready to capture >1.2TB again next month or next trip.
But even if they know this and are creating or consuming more than 1.2TB of data "on the go", the likely much better solution for them than using any kind of cloud service is a portable drive. There are pocketable 5TB drives for < $100 or even faster 8TB m.2 in a tiny iPod-like case for less than $1K. If me and I had that much need to move huge data > 1.2TB every month, I'd be on those trains vs. leaning on cloud options.
And If I worried about the security of the portable drive, I'd either carry TWO+ of them (mirroring each other) and/or synch chunks of that data back to home store via an ethernet connection to minimize the throttling pains. For instance, when traveling, connect in the hotel room (ethernet) each night (or when I can) and ship a big block of more important data home.
And if I was too remote for any ethernet option at all, I might have 5 or 6 such drives along, mirror files as I go and then drop one off at DTS/FEDEX/Mail at points during the trip to ship each drive back. Even if 1 or 2 didn't make it, it's unlikely that all wouldn't make it. And each one in the latter pool would have all of the newly-created data that were shipped on the earlier drives.
If I get home with that final drive, I could just dump all of the "new" to my Synology without involving Xfinity at all, then clear all of my "on the road" drives to be ready to capture >1.2TB again next month or next trip.
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I kind of do this, but with bargain charity shop CDs.
Regular subscription price increases are why I still buy physical CDs and DVD media
That, my connection to my library - and subscription service "behavior" - is why I still purchase music and keep my own library and highly curate it
I like always having "my library" just as I want it, how I left it ... no music missing all the sudden for license reasons, etc
And this is why chasing services revenue ruins product companies.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
If this is true for many and- more importantly- they are actually acting on such words, it explains why you can see so much news about "inflation 'slowing down'". What does that mean exactly? It means that while prices are still inflating, they are not inflating as fast as there were in the last few years.
Many people hear spin like "getting inflation under control" and similar and believe that translates into getting back to former, better prices. They are WRONG about that. It means that there is a general expectation of always-inflating prices and the goal is to only target a level of inflation and proclaim it "normal."
What consumers often want- and what tech can actually sometimes deliver- is DEFLATION... that is prices not just rising slower but actually coming DOWN. To "force" deflation, consumers as a group have to either decide that their money is worth more than ask prices for "stuff" or be fully tapped out so that they don't have the money to pay any more.
In short: inflation is NOT a requirement of life. Prices don't just have to go up and up. It happens because people choose to "just pay" more for everything.
Deflation works too if the bulk of those same people decided the money was worth more than all of the "stuff." It just hasn't been like that in a very long time. The consumer end of the proposition is not functioning well... letting the seller consistently "win" at bargaining. In any sales proposition, any consumer has just as much right to say "No" and they have in saying "Yes." We simply seem to have forgotten that and/or have gotten too soft at the most core part of the game called capitalism.
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I've slowly ditched most subscriptions now. Getting rid of Apple Music and going back to buying CDs and digital albums has been brilliant. It's made me engage with music again and take seriously the idea of buying music to keep forever. There was an initial outlay where I bought £200 worth of music but that's slowed to a couple of albums a year now. In the long run I'm going to save thousands and I've built myself a lovely little digital collection of FLACs which I can stream on Sonos or listen on my Walkman.
Feels good not paying for any kind of subscription except the basic ones like home internet / internet for mobile phone.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
If one applies enough time, owning is almost always better than renting... in all things.
There is always a time calculation one can make where renting becomes the 'more expensive' option. If someone's time is short, renting can deliver far more value for much less cost. However, working with a lifetime scale as is often the case for stuff like music collections or media storage, etc, owning will eventually cost far less than forever rent.
I believe that is last year's price increase, and you are only being notified now because you are on an annual plan.
My mobile phone company includes Apple One as one of their 'perks' for my current tariff - so if Apple doesn't raise their prices anytime soon then I'd still see an increase because they raise their prices every April.
Yep.
I couldn't tell you exactly what their longterm goal is. But in the 2-3 years in total I've been subscribed to Music, I think only about 1/3 of the period has been on my dime.
I've now been using YouTube Premium and YT Music for a few months, and the few times I've accidentally opened up Music, they're immediately ready with another 3 months free or at 50% off.
I guess Spotify is still way more popular and this is Apple's way of boosting its numbers?
I personally prefer Music, even if the suggestion algorithm isn't as good as Spotify's or YouTube's. And I would definitely opt for Music if I had to pick between either.
A bit of a strange conclusion to come to.
maybe on iTunes, you can find some albums for $10.99, but that's lossy and unless you wanna mess with the dated iTunes for windows, pretty much exclusive to Apple devices.
when people buy music from their favorite artists, they are usually buying physical copies, which are significantly more expensive than $10.99.
CDs are closer to $20, most vinyl $40+, and once you get to the world of reissues and box sets and remixes, those can easily go for $100-$200 depending on the artist.
while there are obvious downsides, $10.99 a month for instant access to almost all music the second it's released in full lossless with Dolby Atmos and Lyrics and credits is truly a value for the customer.
Yeah, I'm very happy I never really got into movies, series and shows, even though I've tried many times(!) and only need a music subscription.
But knowing how I only consume relatively little new music, I'm starting to think buying CDs and ripping them or getting mp3s of music collection from iTunes (or similar) would actually cost me less and save me from shopping around for the best streaming service, transferring playlists, etc., etc.
Most convenient option would just be iTunes. But surely, it would be dumb to invest in a ton of music on a platform that Apple could shut down at any point in time.
iTunes revenue has to be shrinking every year, right?
Are We Free From Price Increases to Apple Services This Year?
this year maybe we are but the January 2nd…. 😛
„Take this as a bit of good news on a Friday, or we reminded Apple that it still needs to increase prices and we will forever regret publishing this story.“
This is bad news for Apple. Still none of the services is making money as expected and Apple is in fear to loose customers. While Netflix is increasing prices while gaining more and more customers.
This is bad news for Apple. Still none of the services is making money as expected and Apple is in fear to loose customers. While Netflix is increasing prices while gaining more and more customers.
I’m canceling my Apple One subscription. No Apple Arcade, no Apple TV+. Never really used it. Just going to keep Apple Music and 200GB cloud storage.
While I still use iCloud for backup and photos, I’ve started dabbling in Immich for my photo backup backup. It’s not perfect, but it’s nice to have as a secondary backup. If it ever matures to the point I don’t need iCloud, awesome.
I'd not heard of Immich -- thank you for mentioning it!
Looks like it's somewhat easy to get going with it on TrueNAS -- may have to try this over the weekend
TrueNAS Apps Market
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www.truenas.com