Some of us prefer local storage as there is no problem with coverage, data plan limits, speed, privacy and works on a plane etc.No. Have people never heard of Cloud storage?
No. Have people never heard of Cloud storage?
But you have to back up regularly and manually, whereas a few £s/$s spent on iCloud does it for you, just by putting the phone on charge.I have no interest in bothering with that (and paying an endless subscription model, no matter how cheap) when I could pay once and just have local storage and be done with it, and never be dependent upon a connection. Local storage is just simpler, and then I also don't have to manage/sync/maintain the cloud either, just becomes another thing for me to manage. More hassle all around, trying to reinvent the wheel.
I'm kinda mixed on this topic. On one hand, your argument about not wanting to get tied to a subscription is perfectly valid, but ultimately I don't think the economics hold up. The difference in storage tiers for a phone is usually what, 100 maybe 150 USD, and the price for 200gb cloud storage is 2.99 a month, making a yearly total of 36 dollars. At this rate you lose money if you upgrade your phone any more frequently than 3-5 years. This is fine, to some people the gain is worth the cost. The real benefit comes when you own more than one Apple device, because this space is shared and all your devices have access to it, making it so that you need the lesser storage tiers on other devices.I have no interest in bothering with that (and paying an endless subscription model, no matter how cheap) when I could pay once and just have local storage and be done with it, and never be dependent upon a connection. Local storage is just simpler, and then I also don't have to manage/sync/maintain the cloud either, just becomes another thing for me to manage. More hassle all around, trying to reinvent the wheel.
I have 27GB of music on my iPhone and I paid for it all.I don’t see the point of even 256 GB on a phone. When I’ve talked to people that have that much storage it is due to either music or pictures or sometimes games. Most who need that much storage for music are out to impress people with all the illegally downloaded music on their phone. Doubtful many will have paid for that much music. If you take that many pictures, well that would be impressive and well beyond what most of us need. Then there are the gamers that need every new game and all the extras that need to be downloaded. You’ll also notice that many of the people that need this much storage for whatever reason are the ones that complain about daily battery life.
I have a 200GB icloud storage plan at the moment and it costs peanuts. I use it to back up all my devices, iPhone, iPads,MacBook and use iCloud Drive on all my devices. I also use it to hold all my pics. So paying for iCloud is always worth it for me. However I still wouldn’t mind having more local storage.I'm kinda mixed on this topic. On one hand, your argument about not wanting to get tied to a subscription is perfectly valid, but ultimately I don't think the economics hold up. The difference in storage tiers for a phone is usually what, 100 maybe 150 USD, and the price for 200gb cloud storage is 2.99 a month, making a yearly total of 36 dollars. At this rate you lose money if you upgrade your phone any more frequently than 3-5 years. This is fine, to some people the gain is worth the cost. The real benefit comes when you own more than one Apple device, because this space is shared and all your devices have access to it, making it so that you need the lesser storage tiers on other devices.
This can be taken even further if your family has one plan that is shared, because you can share your icloud storage with all members of your family, but separately so files don't overlap. This drives down the total storage tiers you have to buy on upgrades for everyone.
Edit: Just saw the 2tb plan is 9.99/mo. So for basically the cost of 1 storage tier upgrade a year you can have all the storage you need for everyone in your family.
Different strokes for different folks then. To me, paying the extra for the larger storage model is astronomically more expensive. In two and a half years of using iCloud I’ve never once had any sort of issue accessing what I need. Ok, so you have to do a local download for anything you might need for a flight - but that’s no different to selecting a book from a shelf. The integration is also pretty seamless so I can’t say that I’ve ever felt like it’s something I have to manage. Really comes into its own when you change phones.I have no interest in bothering with that (and paying an endless subscription model, no matter how cheap) when I could pay once and just have local storage and be done with it, and never be dependent upon a connection. Local storage is just simpler, and then I also don't have to manage/sync/maintain the cloud either, just becomes another thing for me to manage. More hassle all around, trying to reinvent the wheel.