Apple's new iCloud pricing: Better, bigger, still not much for free
Apple has announced new iCloud pricing, kind of an important thing when you consider that the company will soon be asking us to take more of our images and documents off of our devices and entrust them to the cloud. The new pricing strategy starts off the same -- a measly 5 GB of storage for free -- but then quickly ramps up both in capacity and price.
The monthly price for 20GB is now just $0.99, 200GB weighs in at $3.99, 500GB is $9.99, and a whopping 1 TB will put you back $19.99 per month. That pricing is much lower than it used to be and the maximum available storage is now in the range that it would make even someone like me happy, but the pricing for the high end is still a bit high. Dropbox, for example, made the Pro plan (1 TB) $9.99 per month or just $99.99 annually. Google is charging about the same as Dropbox for Google Drive -- that same 1TB of cloud storage will cost you just $10 a month.
Still, it's an improvement. Apple should, in my opinion, bump the minimum level to 20GB for free so that more iPhone/iPad users will take advantage of the service. What do you think? Leave your comments below.
