In September, Apple's cloud storage and syncing solution saw an iOS 7-style redesign, and in August, Apple rolled out iWork for iCloud, an online collaboration platform that lets you edit documents with friends in real-time. In October, Apple killed off local syncing inside iTunes, leaving users to pick iCloud or another cloud services company like Google for contacts, calendars, and email. Until today, it had been a pretty quiet year for iCloud.
5 GB comes free with an iCloud account.Īlso, while iCloud Drive works on Windows, it remains to be seen if Apple will open up APIs so mobile developers on Android and / or Windows Phone can adopt the storage platform. Apple will now provide 20 GB of storage for $0.99 per month, 200 GB for $3.99 per month, and prices yet to be determined for storage tiers up to 1 TB.
Apple hasn't proven itself to be very reliable in the cloud syncing space - but its prices are now finally on par with competitors. Apple fans will love iCloud Drive for syncing files between their Apple devices, but Apple likely won't convince Dropbox and Google Drive-faithful from switching. However, back in the age of Jobs, cloud syncing apps weren't nearly as much of a commodity as they are today. Now, a few years later, Apple has finally launched its true Dropbox-killer. Steve Jobs once vowed to destroy Dropbox with iCloud.
