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Apple finally realized they weren’t very good at hosting stuff. They never were. Plus, it’s a no brainer leveraging Google and AWS. Their global footprint and
by iJohnDoe 5y ago
Apple finally realized they weren’t very good at hosting stuff. They never were.
Plus, it’s a no brainer leveraging Google and AWS. Their global footprint and expertise alone is worth it. Also, $300 million a year is a drop in the bucket to Apple’s bottom line. They probably make that alone from the millions of adapters they sell each year.
- jbverschoor 5y agoIt's not just $300m. It's $300 for storage. I'm sure they spend more on the GCP platform. They also use AWS, which is over $350m a year. That contract ends in a year or two. Afaik, they don't run on azure anymore. It's not hard to believe they're spending $1B+ on external cloud partners. At $57B net revenue ($274B), a high margin space such as the cloud services could make sense. Although if they're not selling it to the public it would only account for 1-2% net revenue. Apple likes to learn from companies.. Soon there will be an Apple cloud using low energy ARM (M1X) servers. Let's call it the "Digital Apple Tree". Maybe a small reference to the DAT recorder, as Apple likes music. Of course this last part is just made up ;-)
- ksec 5y ago>Afaik, they don't run on azure anymore. why?
- jbverschoor 5y agocould only find old articles mentioning it..
- joezydeco 5y agoEveryone is acting like that $300MM expense is being paid by Apple. I'm paying Apple $120/year for 2TB of iCloud storage. I might not be doing the math right but at $300 million/year for 8 million TB, that's $75/year in google expense for the $120 I'm paying Apple.
- jsnell 5y agoThe average user with 2TB of quota probably isn't using anywhere near that much. It is more likely to be closer to the previous smallest level of quota.