Apple
has dropped the prices on their iCloud from its lofty cloud heights to prices
some of us mere mortals can afford!
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This
as reported in the article “Apple
trims prices on iCloud storage plans”, published September 10, 2014 8:58 AM
PDT by Lance Whitney, CNET News, with the
prices as shown below:
1. 5
GB free
2. 20GB
for US$0.99 (79p) per month
3. 200GB
for $3.99 (£2.99) per month
4. 500GB
for $9.99 (£6.99) per month
5. 1
terabyte for $19.99 (£14.99) per month
Now
the 1TB Cloud is available for a price that’s a little more reasonable but
still too high, compared to their previous prices:
1. 5GB
for free
2. 10GB
for US$20 per year
3. 20GB
for US$40 per year
4. 50GB
for US$100 per year
More
interestingly, they’re launched a version of Apple iCloud for Windows users
that works a lot like DropBox as reported
in the article “iCloud
Drive hits Windows ahead of Mac”, published September 19, 2014 9:18 AM PDT
by Lance Whitney, CNET News, allowing
Drag-and-Drop File Syncing for Documents, photos and other files. The Mac
Faithful will get their Apple iCloud fix later in the year!
Apple iCloud Catch-up –
5GB Free too small and 1TB prices too high for Cloud Storage
However,
with just 5GB Free and 1TB costing US$19.99, this barely makes them competitive
against Google Drive 15GB free as stated
in my Geezam blog article entitled “Google Drive,
the Dropbox clone, now ups the ante to 15GB of Free Storage during Google I/O”.
Ditto
too Microsoft OneDrive free 15GB and
US$9.99 1TB once you’ve purchased Office 365 Office as described in my blog article
entitled “Microsoft
rewards OneDrive users with 15GB Free Storage - How Office 365 users can get
1TB Free Storage as they Chase Google Drive”.
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Microsoft OneDrive was recently been
upgraded to allow 10GB Uploads as the Music Streaming Trends is on the Rise as
noted in my blog
article entitled “Microsoft
rewards OneDrive users with 15GB Free Storage - How Office 365 users can get
1TB Free Storage as they Chase Google Drive”.
Even
the Cloud Storage granddaddy, DropBox,
which I currently use for Blogging and File sharing and who’d purchase iOS App
Loom back in April 2014 as I’d reported in my Geezam
blog article entitled “Dropbox
acquires iOS App Loom as it steamrolls towards the launch of its IPO” is
far better!
Apple iCloud Price Drop
– Response to Bad Press for Apple iCloud Celebrity Hacking incident
Still,
this was a good response in the face of criticism after the Apple iCloud hack. Apple
iCloud hack resulted in several well-known Hollywood Celebrities accounts being
compromised revealing less-than-flattering nude photos of themselves as
explained in “Apple:
Celeb photo attack was targeted, not widespread breach”, published
September 2, 2014 12:27 PM PDT by Shara Tibken, CNET
News.
A
group called hackappcom did exactly that using a script that they developed to
query iCloud via the “Find My iPhone” API to guess username and password
combinations as stated in “iCloud
Data Breach: Hacking And Celebrity Photos”, published 9/02/2014 @ 3:00AM by Dave Lewis, Forbes.
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Then
again, as a hacker, you can guess the Secret Question Option when you’re
forgotten your password for iCloud once you know the username, fairly easy if
you’re a well-known and well blogged about celebrity!
Still,
Apple CEO Tim Cook is taking no chances of a re-occurrence of this incident and
promised improved Security and alerts if iCloud was being accessed on
unrecognized devices as stated in “Apple
to beef up iCloud security alerts after celeb photo hack”, published
September 4, 2014 7:47 PM PDT by Steven Musil, CNET
News.
So
will this make you try out Apple
iCloud for Windows? For me, personally, no, but as a pragmatist, I could
use more free storage to boost my 100GB Cloud as described in my blog article
entitled “How
to create and manage a 100GB Virtual Cloud Drive including Google Drive and
Dropbox - My 100GB+ Cloud Drive Dream as the popularity of my blogs is Hunger
Game Catching Fire”, as more free Storage may be coming in the future.
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