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I'm sure Apple makes plenty of money from users that don't fill up their space to pay for the ones that do. I have a 2TB family plan that I'm paying $10/mo for

I'm sure Apple makes plenty of money from users that don't fill up their space to pay for the ones that do. I have a 2TB family plan that I'm paying $10/mo for, a total of 135GB is used. Most of that usage is from iCloud Photo Library, and while I could use the 200GB plan I'd rather just pay the extra to have effectively unlimited space and not worry about needing to upgrade the plan, especially as I record video in 4K by default now. I'm sure I'm not the only person who does this, $10/mo is probably nothing to the vast majority of people on HN compared to the hassle of worrying about whether we have enough storage or not.

giobox 9y ago
iOS is pretty good about nudging you to the next tier as you approach filling your current one, IIRC. When I recently had to jump from 200GB plan to 2TB it was one tap on a notification to move to next tier for my whole family, so even for those of us who can easily afford it's arguably not that sensible a strategy to jump straight to 2TB, unless one's goal is to subsidize Apple as much as you can. HEVC/H.265 introduced in iOS 11 largely makes shooting 4K on an iOS device cost _roughly_ the same in storage terms as 1080p/H.264 did, so recording in 4K doesn't really move the storage needle here like it used to either, assuming of course you have an iPhone 7 or newer.
lostmsu 9y ago
Wow, MS Office 365 costs like $100/y for 5 users, each getting 1TB of OneDrive. And also, well, Office.
- snuxoll 9y ago
  OneDrive also doesn't integrate well with my Apple devices, so there's that. I do also pay for Office 365 though, $100/yr is significantly cheaper than purchasing Office for every computer in my house.
- tekknik 9y ago
  Apple includes their own office suite for free with all macs so if you don’t need 100% office compatibility why give MS more money? I haven’t had or used office in some years now and don’t miss it a bit.
cstrat 9y ago
I read this comment and was confused because it is exactly what I would have written and thought I had a moment of amnesia where I forgot that I posted a response... Same boat 100%... Family sharing, 2TB plan, have my wife and mother in the family. Combined we use less than 200GB, but I am happy to pay for more storage rather than deal with tech support calls from them two when we go over 200GB and they get error messages popping up. :P

giobox 9y ago

iOS is pretty good about nudging you to the next tier as you approach filling your current one, IIRC. When I recently had to jump from 200GB plan to 2TB it was one tap on a notification to move to next tier for my whole family, so even for those of us who can easily afford it's arguably not that sensible a strategy to jump straight to 2TB, unless one's goal is to subsidize Apple as much as you can. HEVC/H.265 introduced in iOS 11 largely makes shooting 4K on an iOS device cost _roughly_ the same in storage terms as 1080p/H.264 did, so recording in 4K doesn't really move the storage needle here like it used to either, assuming of course you have an iPhone 7 or newer.

lostmsu 9y ago

Wow, MS Office 365 costs like $100/y for 5 users, each getting 1TB of OneDrive. And also, well, Office.

snuxoll 9y ago
OneDrive also doesn't integrate well with my Apple devices, so there's that. I do also pay for Office 365 though, $100/yr is significantly cheaper than purchasing Office for every computer in my house.
tekknik 9y ago
Apple includes their own office suite for free with all macs so if you don’t need 100% office compatibility why give MS more money? I haven’t had or used office in some years now and don’t miss it a bit.

cstrat 9y ago

I read this comment and was confused because it is exactly what I would have written and thought I had a moment of amnesia where I forgot that I posted a response... Same boat 100%... Family sharing, 2TB plan, have my wife and mother in the family. Combined we use less than 200GB, but I am happy to pay for more storage rather than deal with tech support calls from them two when we go over 200GB and they get error messages popping up. :P