![]() ![]() Tap Settings, iCloud, then scroll down the page and tap the Storage and Backup button.ICloud should be intuitive and creating more loyalty to the Apple ecosystem - not complex and creating more doubt.You can check how much iCloud space your various apps are using, or even turn off iCloud Backup for a given app by flipping the “On/Off” switch. As time goes on, I worry that more Apple users will question why they've been so willing to pay up for iCloud. With Yahoo! offering this huge amount of storage for photos and videos, that's sure to attract others. I'm sure Peter Oppenheimer is happy with that high-margin revenue more than covering the costs of their new data centers.īut on the other hand - even as a shareholder - I worry that this high-margin revenue stream from iCloud is coming at a hidden cost to Apple over time. If they're selling iCloud to about 200 million users today at an average of $30 / year (and I'm assuming most of them aren't aware you've got to enable photo sharing to My Photo Stream), Apple's getting a nice $6 billion annual revenue stream. On the one hand, as an Apple shareholder, I love to see Apple making money any chance they get. ![]() Why doesn't Apple just make it dead simple for me and others and offer something similar to Flickr? So, my question is: What's Apple's high priced strategy here with iCloud? It seems to be to maximize additional revenue.īut isn't the real value of iCloud to its users convenience? If they - as I have started to do - are forced to move a lot of my videos to Flickr from iCloud, it's a pain in the rear. To get the equivalent storage - for all videos, and let's leave photos out of this for now - from iCloud as Flickr is offering me, I would have to pay Apple $1,862 each year.Īs Jeff Bezos would say: "Your margin is my opportunity." Apple is getting great margin for its storage services - which most would say have lots of room for improvement to begin with. What's more, with the advent of a terabyte of free photo and video storage to Flickr, I think it's completely reasonable to ask "why am I pay X for iCloud when I'm going to get Y in terms of storage from this other provider?" But it's needlessly complex and non-intuitive. I will keep using it for my files and sharing iTunes across my devices. However, it's much more straightforward than Apple requiring you to enable this setting and that setting and then blocking videos, which Flickr doesn't. Is it the same as also being able to upload files, iTunes and then share them across multiple devices like iCloud? No, it's not apples-to-apples. In Flickr, you have 1 terabyte to upload. To see the rest, you've got to enable that they be automatically downloaded to your Mac or PC, which Apple cautions you will eat up a lot of storage space. On iOS devices, you only see 1000 photos. They're just not all there on iOS devices. So all the photos are there on My Photo Stream. From there, you can browse your recent photos or move the ones you like to your Camera Roll or another album to keep them on your device forever. Your iOS devices keep a rolling collection of your last 1000 photos in the My Photo Stream album. ICloud pushes all your photos to the My Photo Stream album on your devices and computers, and manages them efficiently, so you don’t run out of storage space. ![]()
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