Apple Highlights Five Perks for iPhone Users Who Pay for iCloud Storage

How about offering 500 GB for the $2.99 and adding a 1 TB plan for $5.99?

Only 2/5 are useful to me. What would be much more useful is having more tiers at different prices. 200GB to 2TB jump is asking a lot.

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I use this feature all the time for when I sign up for free trials (with various subscription services)

(or) companies that require you provide an email address….but you don’t want to give them your ACTUAL email address - for the purpose of being able to relinquish unwanted newsletter spam shall said company(s) refuse compliance with ‘unsubscribe’ initiations on my end

iCloud is the only Apple subscription service that I use. I have to say, only 5GB for free is pretty pathetic, but the prices for 50GB and 200GB (the tier I use) are very reasonable!

Curious that with the absence of real competition, as far as integration with the Os goes, the prices increase linearly with no discount whatsoever. 2-6-12 Tb all have the same “side benefits” and yet the storage price increases linearly instead of flattening out.
Explain to me again why the EU shouldn’t enforce some competition as far as iOS integration goes? There’s nothing remotely comparable in terms of cloud storage for iOS devices. Nothing that keeps Photos albums, faces, backups and the like. And, mind you, iCloud is reportedly “stupid” (all face recognition happens on device, as well as most privacy sensitive information and/or handling or said information) and yet no one outside Apple can provide it? There’s plenty of companies that could provide secure, encrypted storage of the data if they only could, and for a fraction of the price. And yet privacy, bla bla bla. If the data is mine, handled on device, and Apple cannot access it, why shouldn’t Apple allow third parties, at the same condition, to offer the same service? Or, better still, allow me to have an “on premise” compatible device doing the exact same (as time capsule was)? 120 usd a year for 1 tb of cloud storage, even factoring the services (which, again, are device dependent and not handled by the cloud) is absurd. Apple’s iCloud, per their definition and privacy orientation, is just some dumb disk in the sky…

How about offering 500 GB for the $2.99 and adding a 1 TB plan for $5.99?

Exactly. How many people are even on the 200gb plan these days?!

200gb is so outdated in today’s world for most individuals, ESPECIALLY families

Both my Dad & I are each using close to 300gb of our 2tb plan

I read MR comments regarding this issue all the time of the fact that there isn’t ANY plan between 200gb and 2000gb!!

1800gb (10 x) is SUCH a massive gap/difference that has been talked about on these forums FOR YEARS and yet 🍎 has yet to publicly acknowledge this issue and/or rectify it (in any way)

Pretty much every iCloud user’s storage needs continue to increase (not decrease) so it would be prudent for Apple to not only modernize the 200gb plan to say 500gb - for the same cost (or a dollar or two more) but also to continuously revisit their iCloud storage pricing models (on a regular 5yr OR multi-year basis) to allow their effective pricing and storage amounts to more closely resemble the current needs of customers - as demand for storage will only increase as users take more pictures (using ever higher quality iPhone cameras)

Storage costs also are continuously decreasing over time as technology progresses so Apple can (and should) price storage much more competitively than they have been doing.
Google’s cloud storage costs serve as the most effective barometer of a ballpark of what Apple SHOULD be charging - google has continuously lowered their pricing in recent years, while Apple has stayed the same for an unnecessarily long time - causing a very large discrepancy in Apple’s storage competitiveness with the current market