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> A tale of wasted space and Services revenue With photos, I guess this could end up being around 1GB. Maybe this will push you off the free plan to the $1/mo
by dehrmann 5y ago
> A tale of wasted space and Services revenue
With photos, I guess this could end up being around 1GB. Maybe this will push you off the free plan to the $1/mo plan, but I don't see it being that big of a needle-mover for services revenue.
- saagarjha 5y agoMy sister has a chat with 15 GB worth of attachments. Lots of videos :(
- sackerhews 5y agoThere are 1 billion iPhones in current, active use. A dollar from each of those is 1 billion dollars. That's a nice bonus, no matter how much the needle moves. https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/27/there-are-1b-iphones-in-use-worldwide-apple-says https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/27/there-are-1b-ipho...
- dehrmann 5y agoYou have a point that it adds up. I just suspect that your photos eclipses the size of your texts.
- swiley 5y agoI made the mistake of turning on automatic photo back up (I have no idea how to bulk copy photos off the iphone without a mac, I've given them up as lost honestly, most of them are random crap anyway) and now my icloud account is completely full and I keep getting told I need to send Apple money. I definitely prefer my current phone that lets me just rsync ~/Pictures.
- jimsmart 5y agoNot that I'm suggesting you should send Apple money: but it's like £0.79 per month for 50gb - less than £10/year. For me at least: that's pretty cheap compared to other services.
- hedora 5y agoI paid $0.99 for photosync. It syncs to many cloud providers, and (most importantly to me) to ssh/sftp. You can set it to sync whenever your phone is inside a particular location boundary (e.g. at home, where there is wifi), so it works transparently with zero ports open to the internet, and no firewall-bypassing cloud services.