US$19.99 1TB Cloud thanks to Apple iCloud Price Drop – Apple iCloud for Windows out to counter Bad Press from Celebrity Hacking

Apple has dropped the prices on their iCloud from its lofty cloud heights to prices some of us mere mortals can afford!

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”.

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.

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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Apple iCloud for Windows