Apple Introduces iCloud Drive Lower Cost Storage

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• CalaverasGrande - Friday, September 12, 2014 - link

  considering how cheap and easy NAS is these days this is not terribly competitive. I also wish there was a better tier between 20gb, which is not enough to back up my idevices, and 200gb which is way more than I need to back up my idevices.

• AppleCrappleHater2 - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link

  Worship the holy apple.
  
  The apple way, selling over expensive crap to stupid consumers that like to
  get robbed.
  
  This has been a disastrous launch in every respect. The iwatch is such an
  ugly piece of crap, it is truly unbelievable how a company, formerly known for
  its remarkable design, dares to put out such a crap ton of shit. Some
  characteristics are glaringly obvious and inherent to it: over expensive,
  hardly innovative, limited functionality and usability (need of an iPhone to
  make it work), looks exactly like a toy watch and so on.
  
  There are of course way better smart watches out there, especially form the
  likes of Samsung, Sony, Motorola, Asus, LG, simply put, there is no need for
  another piece of over expensive junk.
  
  The iPhone 6 is technologically stuck in pre-2011 times, a base model witch
  a capacity of 16GB without the possibility to use SD cards isn't even funny
  anymore. The screen resolution is horrendous, it isn't water proof, shock and
  dust resistant, it offers nothing innovative, just some incremental
  updates over its predecessor, both lacking severely behind their competitors at
  their respective launch dates.
  
  Now the Iphone 6 Plus offers a „Retina HD“ screen, full 1920x1080p, oh wow,
  where have you been for the past 4 years apple, talk about trailing behind.
  That’s pathetic. The interesting thing about that is the fact that apple
  always manages to sell backwards oriented, outdated crap to its user base, all
  while pretending to be an innovative technology leader. The similarities
  regarding any form of sectarian cult are striking.
  
  You gotta love how Apple always comes up with new marketing bullshit terms,
  aka "Retina HD", with the intention to manipulate its users while preventing easy
  comparisons with its competitors by withholding the actual specs. Apparently it’s
  not enough to have an 1080p screen, you have to call it "Retina HD" to make those
  suckers buy it, otherwise someone could look at the 4K Amoled and Oled screens
  form LG and Samsung devices and get outright disappointed. Same goes for
  everything else. Every outdated „feature“ needs to get its own marketing label
  to persuade buyers with crappy „experience“ and „usability“ ads, while covering
  the truth with marketing gibberish, knowing full well that only a fraction of
  aforementioned buyers cares to look at the facts and dares to compare them.
  
  Car engines come to mind. For comparisons shake let’s look at a 1.0 liter, turbo
  charged petrol engine and a V8 compressor. What’s better should be obvious, but
  by calling the former an „ecobooster“, thus giving it a special marketing label,
  this joke becomes a „feature“, something positive that can be added tot the list
  of features of a car.
  
  By doing so a negative aspect is transformed into a positive one, the
  reality is distorted, non tech savvy buyers are manipulated and comparisons are
  made more difficult (another layer of marketing bullshit to overcome), well done
  marketing department. You see , if something is seriously lacking (of course for
  profit, what else), don’t bother explaining, just give it a nice marketing term, distort
  reality, make it a feature and call it a day. Fuck that!!
  
  The Apple Iphone 1 and Ipad 1 might have been innovative at their time,
  but since then, the bitten apple has been continuously rotting from the inside
  outwards, always swarmed by millions of Iworms which regale themselves with its
  rotten flesh, not forgetting all other Americans who support apple by means of
  their tax dollars to finance its bought US Treasury/Government bond interest rates.
  
  Last but not least, every Apple product includes a direct hotlink to the nsa,
  free of charge, something that might make it a good value, after all.
  
  Ceterum censeo Applem esse delendam.

• Shiitaki - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link

  Personally I'm not willing to send all of my data up in to the cloud. Google is inventorying everyone so they can sell you adds. Microsoft is being cheap to gain market share. The whole office thing only works if you want office I don't. And yes, Mac people have come accustom to a higher level of expectation that Microsoft simply won't deliver. No technical reason, they sell products that they love, and they are a big company full of software engineers. So 'easy' to them, not so much for the rest of us. Microsofts is doing great things in the Enterprise with Server, but their desktop products suck.
  
  Sure, you can buy a sheep Windows computer, but you start adding up all the costs like Office, Windows upgrade. Not really cheaper. And though Apple insists on using more expensive laptop parts in most of their machines. It allows for more energy efficiencty, quieter(this is a big one), and smaller cases(I think Apple has taken this idea a little to far personally). And other parts of the Apple computer are generally superior to the cheaper PC versions people talk about, like AC networking.
  
  So for all of the free stuff that Apple gives away, not really surprised they are charging more for this.

• zodiacsoulmate - Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - link

  or i buy 6TB of hardrive for $240 and sync to it on my phone...