Enable selective sync and I will gladly subscribe. Otherwise, I am not interested in using up needless hard drive space, because Apple thinks I should have all my files on every Apple device.
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New iCloud Pricing Tiers for All Countries Outlined in Updated Support Document
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But Google offers you more free storage than iCloud so you can store your uncompressed (even though the compression is insanely good) photos for free. If you need more space you can upgrade to paid storage where you can still store your uncompressed photos.
The best part is that Google doesn't raise their prices in Canada because of dollar differences, so Canadians pay the exact same cost as Americans rather than Apple who increase their price to Canadians because of the dollar difference.
Except that they don't sell your info. Do you not know how data mining works? Google sells ads, not personal info. They get paid to display an ad to the correct audience. At no point does one of their users info get sold to anyone else. If Google were to provide their info, why would the company paying for the ad have to go through Google?
Google isn't offering what Apple is offering. Apple is offering a safe and secured place for your photos. And the convenience of them being synced across all your Apple devices. iCloud preserves the quality, date, and location of your photos. Google doesn't do a good job of any of that stuff. And Google uses your photos for advertising purposes. In my opinion, iCloud is definitely worth the 99¢ each month.
Might want to read googles terms there bud. You give them the right to use ANY of your photos or docs for ANY REASON they want and make money from them. Reproduce, publish ANYTHING!!! It's insane. I suspect the first thing that will/is happen is people's gps pics will appear on google maps.
If you are cool with that then fine. I'd rather pay. The documents and email scanning is insane and I have no idea why any company would use it!
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5 GB on the free tier is really the sweet spot, I can't imagine what I'd even do with 50 GB or 1 TB on iCloud. Most of the things that would fall into that range I wouldn't want to deal with over the cloud, and for the rest iCloud hasn't worked consistently enough to rely on anyways.
5 GB is just enough to ensure that I will only ever use it for pages/word/excel/email. If I need anything more I'll stick to dropbox and onedrive.
5 GB is just enough to ensure that I will only ever use it for pages/word/excel/email. If I need anything more I'll stick to dropbox and onedrive.
Google Photos free unlimited may sound like a good deal, but even if your photo is less than 16MP, Google still recompress it (significantly), reducing its quality. Not cool in my book.
Flickr, 1TB, no recompress bull, free. Take that Google.
Seriously , you trust google? You know Google make a lot more money for storing your photos free by selling your info to anyone who pays them.
And you do know that your photos are not saved full size - so that in fact they're not backed up at all - and that Google can make use of your photos whenever they want for free… you get what you pay for!
If you go to your Google photos settings: https://photos.google.com/settings
and change your selection to "Original", your photos are saved unmodified. The only downside to this is that they count against your account storage total. Whereas the "High Quality" setting has unlimited storage.
And the Google TOS specifically states that you are are granting them license to use your stuff only for the "limited use of promoting our services". It's still not great, but hey it's free, and I doubt anyone would want to use any of my crappy iPhone snapshots for any business purpose at all.
Because here on earth a company like Apple can make it happen. Just adjust a little their cost scheme and there you have it. Absurd is keeping the old model of paying extra for everything you need to use the Apple devices. This will give apple customers another reason to stay with Apple. Investing Millions is close to nothing with all that cash they have and will bring them more billions with free advertising from all news and media covering the FREE cloud services and billions of $ in repeat customers as wells as people leaving MS and Google to get all the storage they need in the cloud when they buy an Apple device, one less thing to worry about.
I still feel that if you buy a 16GB iPad, then it should come with enough space to back it up to the cloud, and if you buy a 128GB ipad, then your device should come with 128GB of iCloud allotment to do the same. If they want to charge extra for a backup service, then make it $2/mo. ...per device, regardless of storage size.
Your customers are paying for a backup of their device, not x y or z gigabytes in a server farm.
This is how you sell it.
Your customers are paying for a backup of their device, not x y or z gigabytes in a server farm.
This is how you sell it.
They can do it without jacking up the prices, storage costs go down over time. They have the funds and they can simply adjust their cost scheme to this be a magnet to repeat purchases as well as attracting new customers from MS and Google.
Which is lame considering how Google only offers 15GB free. There's no reason for Google to be able to offer better. Flickr offers free 1TB storage, and no recompressing crap. I expect Google, being the giant top internet company, to do better.
Still no pricing change yet. It's already September 16th here, 3:23 in the morning.
Edit: But I don't think I need an upgrade.
Edit: But I don't think I need an upgrade.
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If iCloud Drive could do what Dropbox does for me and was as reliable, I'd think about it. But until then, no thanks, even for free.
This is to show how greedy Apple. They could have easily give 5gig of every device you own instead of account. For example if I have an iPad and iPhone that would have been 10gig free. But nope they decided per account so my iPad and iPhone and Mac is only 5 gig. Pretty much useless if that's the case.
Unlimited and free forever? Doesn't that sound just a little bit dubious to you? How the hell are they trying to make money from this?