New Perk Gives Apple Employees 50GB of iCloud Storage

[MacRumors]

Apple has introduced a new perk for Apple employees, giving them a free 50GB upgrade to their iCloud storage -- a $100/year value. This is similar to the free MobileMe subscription that employees received until last year when iCloud replaced that service. The standard iCloud account includes 5GB of storage.

Earlier this year Apple employees were granted a new discount on Apple hardware, offering employees $500 off a Mac (excluding the Mac mini) or $250 off an iPad -- and that discount was recently extended to the Retina MacBook Pro as well.

Article Link: New Perk Gives Apple Employees 50GB of iCloud Storage

 

[rainking]

Wow, what a great perk!

 

[ghostface147]

Damn, I barely use 200 megs for iCloud.

 

[Pompiliu]

Slow news day?

 

[S.B.G]

I'm glad to see the company is giving its employees some significant perks and discounts.

 

[batting1000]

Lucky...

 

[q64ceo]

Without iDisk, what really is the point of having more than 5GB?

Unless you are a photofreak there is no way you are gonna hit even close to the limit

 

[chrmjenkins]

See all the perks you get for your employees when you unceremoniously purge them?

 

[applesith]

That's nice!

I'm just over 5GB between my iPhone and iPad backups so I'm paying for the 10GB.

 

[troop231]

Apple should give this to devs as well!

 

[kirky29]

Without iDisk, what really is the point of having more than 5GB?

Unless you are a photofreak there is no way you are gonna hit even close to the limit

I don't know...my backups are starting to take some serious space!

But there should be some kind of iDisk again.

 

[TallGuy1970]

What about a new iPhone every year? That would be a perk!

 

[madrag]

I hope they keep the discount on the macs for their employees...

 

[kfury77]

This is pretty awesome and shows why Apple is the best company to work for in America.

I do need more iCloud Storage. I might apply for a job at Apple.

ha ha funny guy.

 

[budselectjr]

This is pretty awesome and shows why Apple is the best company to work for in America.

I do need more iCloud Storage. I might apply for a job at Apple.

hope you are not talking about retail

 

[visim91]

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[haruhiko]

Without iDisk, what really is the point of having more than 5GB?

Unless you are a photofreak there is no way you are gonna hit even close to the limit

iCloud back up for my iPhone and iPad uses about 18GB

 

[Undecided]

I'd like to see the iTunes Match capacity increased from 25,000.

 

[ls1dreams]

This is probably a bad idea just because apple employees are going to forget what a PITA it is to try to sync only partial apps and not really know what's backed up.

I personally use iCloud only to sync contacts, and manage everything else in iTunes.

 

[Peace]

I don't know...my backups are starting to take some serious space!

But there should be some kind of iDisk again.

Why don't you delete you oldest backup ?

 

[Comeagain?]

Without iDisk, what really is the point of having more than 5GB?

Unless you are a photofreak there is no way you are gonna hit even close to the limit

The iWork apps and mail also count against your iCloud storage.

 

[MacUser5]

Apple employees will love this. Another 50GB will really help out with paying the bills.

 

[Summersify]

You know, I can't help but think that they're getting rid of employees and as a result saving their money, and then giving all of these perks to the remaining employees, which is losing them money in a way (normally the employee would have to pay full price for the Macs/iCloud storage). Can they not just keep all the employees and not offer them highly discounted Macs etc?

 

[HarryKeogh]

Apple employees will love this. Another 50GB will really help out with paying the bills.

MacUser5. Report to Cupertino for re-education. Sarcasm will not be tolerated.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Can someone explain to me why the Apple employees feel entitled to "perks"? Are they not being paid to do their job? I don't understand why people feel entitled to freebies nowadays. They already get a very generous discount. I guess it's just the world we live in.