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After notifying former MobileMe members that their complimentary iCloud storage has expired, Apple has moved forward with bumping down to the free 5 GB storage for those members who didn’t wish to purchase a storage plan (via MacRumors).
For those using more than 5 GB of storage, Apple offered the choice between reducing the amount of iCloud storage and purchasing a storage plan with a larger amount of storage than they are currently using.
iCloud was introduced in 2011, and it comes with 5 GB of free storage for photos, iPhone/iPad backups and other items. Back then, Apple also announced that MobileMe subscribers who were on paid subscription plans would be offered a free iCloud upgrade equivalent to their current storage plan for a year. Apple later extended this period to September 30, 2013.
For those in need of extra storage plans, the iCloud offer looks like this: $20/year for an additional 10 GB, $40/year for 20 GB, and $100/year for 50 GB.
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I dont understand this. This storage would be tiny for them. Why not just leave it for the people that backed your service.
How do you back a service without actually paying for it?
I paid for mobileme…
Didn’t know they had a lifetime subscription.
Ok – I’m being a smartass. But it’s for the purpose of pointing out that you’re being unreasonably selfish. I mean, seriously… They extended mobileme subscriptions WAAAYYYY beyond what they had to. I consider that pretty darn respectful of their customers.
I’m being selfish? What about all of those customers that paid for the service and it was later converted to a free service cutting a lot of useful features. I don’t think it is unreasonable to allow those people the extra storage as a thank you. They have huge data center’s, i’m sure it would be tiny amount to them. I definitely would appreciate it.
You have your views and I have mine. At least I don’t act like an ass to other people when I don’t agree.
I never had slfeatures removed and I don’t recall it ever being free.
You are acting “entitled”. You expect a company to give you stuff just because you think they can and therefore should. This is a pathetic attitude.
Apple should make iCloud storage free, up to 20GB. Other companies can do it, they should too. MobileMe was a failure and paying customers got ripped off. Should’ve kept free extensions forever.
Gary apparently we cant think that way… we are being selfish expecting them to give hand outs.
We can think whatever we want around here 🙂
Bottom line, cloud storage is DIRT cheap, companies are literally giving it away. I bet Apple’s next announcement is to say iCloud storage levels will be bumped up at next year’s WWDC or iPhone announcement.
It’s not vanilla cloud storage. It’s an automated backup system. I don’t know any backup systems that are free – at least none that are reliable.
I also don’t know how I got ripped off? I never felt ripped off.