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iCloud+ Storage Prices Increased in 10 Countries This Year
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Agreed. I have 355GB of data on a 2TB plan. I would love a 500GB or 1TB tier.
It would be nice if they gave you 2 dozen eggs when they double the price. Apparently it doesn't work that way.
Definitely. All of the retailers did that same promotion on Black Friday this year - I think even Costco was doing a $15 Costco gift card if you buy a $100 Apple gift card but Best Buy, Target and Amazon all did that promotion (for a $15 bonus)
I ended up buying a $100 Apple gift card from Best Buy (because they were the first to run the $15 promo) and another $100 Apple gift card from Amazon - $120 of that will go straight to my $9.99 a month 2TB iCloud storage (to get me through until next Black Friday) and the remaining $80 will be used for whatever Apple services I buy between now (and next November) but I’m sure there will be other promotions throughout 2025 on Apple gift cards as well (if I need to buy more)
This past summer I bought a $100 Apple gift card from Best Buy and got a $10 Best Buy gift card and I used the Best Buy card to buy my Apple Watch back in September so I assume there will be similar deals that can possibly be combined with credit card offers as well
No matter what one does, you'd be hard pressed to compete with 0.99 or 2.99/month, not including the general hassle.
People think it means the phone is out of storage, or that they can’t store any more photos. The wording is deliberately deceptive.
If they really believe 5GB is enough they could instead of prompting for an upsell, suggest the user export and delete from iCloud Photos perhaps?
I feel like the same people that come out of the woodwork to defend it are the same ones that defended 8GB RAM as plenty right up until the day Apple finally gave in.
It’s not that they’re technically wrong, it’s just insultingly low and that’s becoming increasingly obvious. It’s just not matching the same pace of numbers getting bigger that everything else is.
This is nuts
This is something that should be getting less expensive over time
This is something that should be getting less expensive over time
There is a difference between the local storage on your computer and the large server farms that supply cloud storage.
The data centers (server farms) have a large infrastructure maintenance cost both in materials and manpower.
New data centers also have to be built to keep up with the demand and these data centers are not cheap.
Tangible, physical, goods do not map to digital goods -- at all
It's a totally inaccurate comparison
would be nice if they would offer some more steps between 200gb and 2tb. I don't want to pay $10 a month and don't need 2tb but I would pay more slightly if there were enough space to hold my entire photo library.
Defending Apple decisions is a strange cottage industry
Some folks seem to simply enjoy doing it, no matter what position or decision they are actually defending
It's such a weird internet/Apple phenomena
A gmail or outlook account comes with 15GB of free storage. A free yahoo account comes with 1TB of free storage.
I am by no means saying these are the same as an iCloud account but just posting the free storage options of big tech companies.
The only thing I use iCloud for is the heath app. Its about 750MB for about 2 years of info.
I tried to use it for the Books app but it refuses to sync any book that wasnt purchased through Apple so I stopped doing that.
I am by no means saying these are the same as an iCloud account but just posting the free storage options of big tech companies.
The only thing I use iCloud for is the heath app. Its about 750MB for about 2 years of info.
I tried to use it for the Books app but it refuses to sync any book that wasnt purchased through Apple so I stopped doing that.
Food prices go up, storage prices goes down, you can argue labor price goes up and then there's inflation but in reality it's just a way for them to pad profit margins
But the storage in the data centers (server farms) are ultimately physical goods so I think that it might be a valid comparison. The data centers (server farms) are more expensive over time and the cost of expanding and building new data centers is always increasing (like everything else).
For Apple this has got to be the most ugly a**e page ever. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108047. Not even a table or anything just a HUGE list??
The difference is that both Google and Yahoo use / sell people's data so that the user is subsidizing the cloud storage price.
What I'd like to see on that list is:
500GB: $4.99
They've become so consumer hostile
Apple know DARNED well that 500GB would cover a huge swath of users needs just fine and specifically don't offer anything between 200GB and 2TB
A 1.8TB range with no options at all
It's so gross that they behave this way
Yes, we should get more food if we’re going to pay higher prices. Chipotle is doing just that:
Chipotle is raising US prices after promising bigger portions
Chipotle is raising its U.S. prices to offset inflation and to compensate for a promise to increase portion sizes.
apnews.com
Storage is dirt cheap, yet they increase prices. Typical Apple.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Buy a NAS device like Synology, own your own Cloud with storage of any size. Pay $0/month rent to yourself.
Such a device will bring many other benefits too such as home network Time Machine, whole home DVR through apps like Channels, shared storage inside your home, etc.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Option 2: Backup the pre-iCloud way. Connect device to Mac, click backup. Then you control your own backup and don't have to pay forever rent to wedge in for-profit Corporate players.
Option 3: turn on backup over wifi to automate #2 without even having to connect a cable.
I'm a NAS user myself and get what you're saying, but it's really no substitute for how simple the built in solution from Apple is, especially if one also uses Apple Photos
(not mention a NAS solution is expensive and may be way way way more than a given user needs or is interested in dealing with)
I feel we are letting them off the hook by even discussing "workarounds" that distract from the real issue, which is Apple gouging folks into the 2TB option by purposely not offering options up/down the storage amount/price scale
This is a fully digital offering -- it's inexcusable to not have some options between 200GB & 2TB
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
If instead of accepting such logic, we would demonstrate we value our money more than that, we could opt out of paying ever-rising prices. What would happen? Prices would start working their way down. Seller always wants the money more than we should want their products or services. Deflation is a concept just as real as Inflation. Our money is worth whatever we collectively make it... by how readily we choose to part with it as a group.
NAS is not free to buy, do not auto-sync your phone.
Costs for Apple are
They are double dipping and boosting their profits by having their own costs go down while ALSO charging people more
It's just horrendous behavior