I'm curious too if the photos/movies don't count against the space limit. I have about 500gb between them. Also wondering if old iPhone pictures and movies will count or not. If they're not counted, I'll go with the 500gb plan. If they are, I'm gonna do the onedrive/office deal. Hope details come soon.
I'm curious too if the photos/movies don't count against the space limit. I have about 500gb between them. Also wondering if old iPhone pictures and movies will count or not. If they're not counted, I'll go with the 500gb plan. If they are, I'm gonna do the onedrive/office deal. Hope details come soon.
Yeah, I'm also confused...
Per Apple Support page "Here's what iCloud backs up:
Photos and videos in your Camera Roll
Device settings
App data
Home screen and app organization
iMessage, text (SMS), and MMS messages
Ringtones
Visual Voicemail"
I have a couple thousand photos in my camera roll, I share them with mostly family in photo streams,
yet my storage says I'm using approximately .31GB out of my 5 free…
clearly, I'm not "getting it", or at least not using it as others are...
so, what are those of you for whom a terabyte is insufficient putting "up" there???
I'll stick with Dropbox until Apple actually demonstrates value with the iCloud.
My dropbox is down to 10.9GB after the 48GB I got for free with a Galaxy S III expired after two years, that deal was also offered with my Galaxy S4 but they never gave me any extra time or space.
The $4 a month for 200GB suits my needs better than anything dropbox offers, 3 months of nag screens as the 2 years was coming up seals the deal for Apple.
P.S. I can use both and SkyDrive too, who says you have to be restricted to one service?
Per Apple Support page "Here's what iCloud backs up:
Photos and videos in your Camera Roll
Device settings
App data
Home screen and app organization
iMessage, text (SMS), and MMS messages
Ringtones
Visual Voicemail"
I have a couple thousand photos in my camera roll, I share them with mostly family in photo streams,
yet my storage says I'm using approximately .31GB out of my 5 free…
clearly, I'm not "getting it", or at least not using it as others are...
so, what are those of you for whom a terabyte is insufficient putting "up" there???
I've got 25GB of iCloud space and was continuously running out of space for backing up two 64GB iPhones and a 64GB iPad, so I changed it to sync the iPad and one of the iPhones with my MacBook.
200GB will easily fix that for less than I pay now.
If Apple figures out a way for the storage of iCloud to not cut into my Mac storage, then I would be happy to get a large amount of iCloud storage. If you get 200 gigs of dropbox storage, it subtracts from the space on your Mac! What good is that? I mean, it's good up to a point. But then, you have to start deleting stuff, and what's the point of that? I say, if I cloud offers off-line storage, and I would probably get a huge amount!!
Apple's new plans compare to competitors like Dropbox, which recently dropped Pro-level pricing down to $99 a year for 1TB of cloud storage.
Yes, Apple's plans compare, but not favourably. $240 year for a TB? Am I really the only one who thinks that's WAAAAAY too much?
A couple people mentioned "seamless integration." What does that mean in this context? What does iCloud do for me that some other online storage service doesn't? Is it something worth two-and-half times as much as Dropbox?
Yes, Apple's plans compare, but not favourably. $240 year for a TB? Am I really the only one who thinks that's WAAAAAY too much?
A couple people mentioned "seamless integration." What does that mean in this context? What does iCloud do for me that some other online storage service doesn't? Is it something worth two-and-half times as much as Dropbox?
It depends what you use it for. For me, paying 99¢ a month for 20GiB works out great for my backup and what files I save to iCloud. For sharing between people I would pay Dropbox for more space but since I already have enough at 18GiB I won't have to.
1TB is actually too big for me. My MacBook Pro only has a 512GB SSD.
Not sure whether I'll switch from Dropbox to iCloud storage. Dropbox is better value but I think I'll wait and see how seamless the iCloud experience is before deciding.
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You're obviously not the user to whom they're pitching this service.
I'll bet 99.9% are cool with it.
It does literally everything Dropbox does, but integrated seamlessly between all of your devices with extensibility to any software on the device.
If the pages on their website don’t demonstrate said value, I’m sure we can pound some more sense into you.
An extra backup is rarely a bad idea.
I'm curious too if the photos/movies don't count against the space limit. I have about 500gb between them. Also wondering if old iPhone pictures and movies will count or not. If they're not counted, I'll go with the 500gb plan. If they are, I'm gonna do the onedrive/office deal. Hope details come soon.
Yeah, I'm also confused...
Per Apple Support page "Here's what iCloud backs up:
Photos and videos in your Camera Roll
Device settings
App data
Home screen and app organization
iMessage, text (SMS), and MMS messages
Ringtones
Visual Voicemail"
I have a couple thousand photos in my camera roll, I share them with mostly family in photo streams,
yet my storage says I'm using approximately .31GB out of my 5 free…
clearly, I'm not "getting it", or at least not using it as others are...
so, what are those of you for whom a terabyte is insufficient putting "up" there???
https://www.mediafire.com/upgrade/
They have 1TB for $24.99 a year.
I'm still using iOS 6 on a 4S. Hope I'll have access to the new pricing without having to get iOS 8.
I'll stick with Dropbox until Apple actually demonstrates value with the iCloud.
My dropbox is down to 10.9GB after the 48GB I got for free with a Galaxy S III expired after two years, that deal was also offered with my Galaxy S4 but they never gave me any extra time or space.
The $4 a month for 200GB suits my needs better than anything dropbox offers, 3 months of nag screens as the 2 years was coming up seals the deal for Apple.
P.S. I can use both and SkyDrive too, who says you have to be restricted to one service?
Yeah, I'm also confused...
Per Apple Support page "Here's what iCloud backs up:
Photos and videos in your Camera Roll
Device settings
App data
Home screen and app organization
iMessage, text (SMS), and MMS messages
Ringtones
Visual Voicemail"
I have a couple thousand photos in my camera roll, I share them with mostly family in photo streams,
yet my storage says I'm using approximately .31GB out of my 5 free…
clearly, I'm not "getting it", or at least not using it as others are...
so, what are those of you for whom a terabyte is insufficient putting "up" there???
I've got 25GB of iCloud space and was continuously running out of space for backing up two 64GB iPhones and a 64GB iPad, so I changed it to sync the iPad and one of the iPhones with my MacBook.
200GB will easily fix that for less than I pay now.
Pr0n...
Apple's new plans compare to competitors like Dropbox, which recently dropped Pro-level pricing down to $99 a year for 1TB of cloud storage.
Yes, Apple's plans compare, but not favourably. $240 year for a TB? Am I really the only one who thinks that's WAAAAAY too much?
A couple people mentioned "seamless integration." What does that mean in this context? What does iCloud do for me that some other online storage service doesn't? Is it something worth two-and-half times as much as Dropbox?
It depends what you use it for. For me, paying 99¢ a month for 20GiB works out great for my backup and what files I save to iCloud. For sharing between people I would pay Dropbox for more space but since I already have enough at 18GiB I won't have to.
1TB is actually too big for me. My MacBook Pro only has a 512GB SSD.
Not sure whether I'll switch from Dropbox to iCloud storage. Dropbox is better value but I think I'll wait and see how seamless the iCloud experience is before deciding.
Did they inform you what they were going to delete or was it just a random boom?
Get over it immediately.
I’m stuck on iOS 3.1.3 and 5.1.2. I’m running an iOS 8 style on my iPhone to compensate.
Wouldn't buying a new iPhone and iPad be easier?
I dunno, it’s kind of fun to rock a first-gen with modern icons.
10 days, though.