Is the iCloud storage plan still appropriate?
Hey Apple,
it's 2014 and with a handful of different iOS devices and iMac I am struggling to have them all backed up, so I have to delete backups of some devices.
How come that after buying an 800 € iPhone I am being asked to pay 99 cents/month for extra backup storage? Feels more like a penalty for those who buy have several devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod). I don't understand at all why you're doing that...
Is online storage so limited these days? Any google freemail user gets more storage then we do!
This storage policy makes you look greedy and stingy. Please consider changing that.
Regards,
a customer
What I am trying to bring across to you and hopefully an Apple employee is customer perception of this policy.
I am not using iCloud as a storage place as such, but exclusively as backup for my iDevices - as advertised .
When you use one device, you have no worries because 5 GB is plenty. When theres a second device, you still only have that one 5 GB, because you want to use the same Apple-ID with both. A third device, and the advertised iCloud Backup function won't work any more unless you buy extra storage. Thing I don't like about it is that only because I use the same Apple-ID I get less service then if I had actually not bought an Apple divide but something else.
So my suggestion would be to give every iDevice purchaser + 2 GB "backup storage" instead of a flat 5 GB regardless of how many devices you own.
Have I made it a bit clearer to you now?
FYI. I am not talking about just any "cloud storage". I am talking iCloud and the iCloud backup apple offers with iDevices, which, when working, is extremely convenient and a huge factor for the decision to go with Apple.
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