Even when it was first unveiled, iCloud storage was expensive, and as companies like Dropbox and Google Drive have dropped the prices of their offering.
But an update to Apple’s iCloud webpage suggests that’s about to change. The company is radically dropping the price of iCloud Storage, starting at just $0.99 a month for 20GB of storage.
As before, customers will continue to get 5GB of storage for free. But upgrade to 20GB of additional storage and it’s just $0.99 per month. 200GB of storage will cost you $3.99 per month, 500GB $9.99, and the 1TB plan costs $19.99 per month. For comparison, the top storage tier, 20GB, used to cost $40 per year.
Pretty competitive. Of course, it has to be. iOS 8 and OX Yosemite unveil a Dropbox-like service called iCloud Drive, where you can store files to sync across multiple platforms. For that to beat the competition, Apple needs to price it accordingly.
Sadly, at least here, the new iCloud storage pricing has yet to go live, meaning that you can’t actually buy more storage at these prices yet. Hopefully we’ll see that go live later today, though.
Source: iCloud
Via: iDownloadBlog
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8 responses to “Apple drops iCloud storage prices to start at just $0.99 per month for 20GB”
So does that mean 5+20 or just 20GB?
Read the price table in the article
Says 5GB free and $0.99 for 20 GB – didn’t answer my question dude.
It’s 25 total for $11.88 yearly
Competitive? That’s not the term I’d use, especially when DropBox offers double the storage (1TB) for $9.99 p/m or $99 p/a. Oh, right: ‘Apple Tax’
If it works faster than the “snailbox” I’d rather pay the “apple tax”
New pricing is live now. At least on the Mac. I paid for the 200 GB plan and I have 200, not 205. So it looks like they don’t throw the free part in as a bonus anymore. I guess I’m paying for 195 GB. ;)
Great prices! The good thing with iCloud Drive (contrary to solutions like Dropbox) is that you can use the stored files right from your Finder panel on Mac OXS or on your iOS devices, without them having to be synced. So it actually saves tons of space on your devices.