Within days, CEO Tim Cook denied that Apple was to blame. Since then, iCloud has attracted considerable negative press: Earlier this month, one or more hackers leaked nude photographs of numerous celebrities, with many of the ensuing headlines calling out iCloud.
Most of the attention paid to iCloud in June focused on iCloud Drive, seen by many as a return of iDisk, the online file hosting service discontinued in mid-2012. Google Drive, for example, also costs $9.99 per month for 1TB. Meanwhile, Dropbox recently unveiled a 1TB plan for $9.99 per month - identical to iCloud's 500GB - and other cloud storage suppliers, like Google, sell space at discounts. This summer, Microsoft raised its free OneDrive allotment for customers who subscribe to Office 365, the rent-not-own productivity suite, to 1TB per user: With an Office 365 Personal subscription, which allows one user the terabyte of storage and the Office software costs $80 annually, or less than half iCloud's 500GB deal.
17.Īpple's prices are lower than previously - the new price of the 20GB deal is 70% less than before - but they are considerably higher than some rivals on a gigabyte-per-year rate. The disclosure of the pricing Tuesday was probably related to the upcoming release of iOS 8, which Apple said would take place on Wednesday, Sept. Those charges represent annual fees of $11.88 (20GB), $47.88 (200GB), $119.88 (500GB) and $239.88 (1TB).Īpple may be waiting for the launch of either iOS 8 or OS X Yosemite - or both - to implement the new pricing and plans.
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