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Be real on your price tag here, I pay 30€ a year (since around ten years) for an email/domain provider. More mainstream I also pay 2,99€ a month for iCloud stor
by Twisell 8y ago
Be real on your price tag here, I pay 30€ a year (since around ten years) for an email/domain provider. More mainstream I also pay 2,99€ a month for iCloud storage wich also include email (should I wanted to) and lots of services.
Theses services are cheap, they are just not as mainstream as they should be. But your hundred dollar a month estimation is just a fear mongering excuse to stick with privacy reselling model.
On the side note, Google should start to wonder what drive the double digit growth of Apple services revenues. iTools was an experiment, .Mac was clumsy, MobileMe was a setback... But I think Apple pretty much nailed it with iCloud.
- luckylion 8y agoI'm not (knowingly) engaging in fear mongering, I just looked up what I'd pay at ProtonMail (privacy first) to have equal storage space I get at GMail (19GB; privacy last), and that's 20-30 euros. Looking at a web search engine, how much would that cost me? What about a place that syncs my images from my cell phone? Or Analytics for my blog? An OS for my smart phone? Google provides all that for free and finances it by mining the data users give them in return. Apple gets something like $9bn a year to let Google be the default search engine. That's revenue for Apple, coming directly from Google's wish to get more data. If you remove that, will iphones be 10-20% more expensive?