This is really greedy imo. Even with inflation the price of storage per gb has decreased by ~90% since 2009. Big downside to being so vendor locked in. It’s not like I can use something like b2 buckets as a replacement.
See blackbaze price per gb for reference:
Has backblaze ever lowered their prices in the entire history of the company? I don’t think so.
The reality is hard drives aren’t the primary cost for data storage. It’s 2 cents/GB to buy the hard drive and dollars per gigabyte (over the life of a hard drive) to actually power the drive, provide access over the network, maintain backups, etc.
The fact hte upfront cost was once 10 cents is irrelevant - none of the larger costs are getting cheaper. Some of them are going up (e.g. zero emission electricity).
It’s also worth noting that Backblaze charges signfiicantly more than Apple does. At a glacne they’re the same price ($10 per 2TB per month) but Backblaze also charges per gigabyte to access data on your drive. Apple provides unlimited access for free and the way the software is setup you’re accessing the cloud stored data constantly.
Using other instant as lemmy.ml is down.
These are all good points. Upon inspection the price is actually very reasonable. Some other 2TB comparisons:
- Dropbox: £7.99/month but £13.99/month if you want to share the data
- Google drive: £7.99/month
- Standard storage at AWS (for accounts with 500TB+ of usage) $0.021/GB/month ($42/month)
iCloud storage also has other perks such as 10 days of recording for unlimited home secure cameras. So the previous £6.99 was unusually cheap, £8.99/month is now more inline with market rate and at the rate at which apple increases the iCloud storage price it will probably stay at £8.99 for a long time.
I see 14 upvotes, even though OP has recanted if you’re still calling Apple greedy over this, then maybe you need to rethink your biases.
Pricing in the United States, Canada, and European Union remains the same.
Phew! I thought I was going to be hit with yet another increase in price…
I just want there to be a 500GB or 1TB option instead of what is currently available
Agreed. This would be an easier pill to swallow if there was more flexibility in their pricing scale.
I could easily go up from 200 to 500 or 1000 but those tiers don’t exist so I just strap my belt and keep from going over my limit because the price for 2000 is ridiculous.
I feel like prices should be going down instead of up
