Apple Unveils iCloud Pricing

Apple unveiled its US pricing plan for extended iCloud storage at today’s developers launch. An extra 5GB will cost $US20/year, 15GB will be $US40/year, and 50GB (for a total of 55BG) will cost $US100 with the additional storage available for purchase via the iOS 5′s settings app.

Apple users do get 5GB free and Photo Stream images will not count against your capacity. Australian pricing is likely to be different, and we’ll let you know when we get those details. [9to5Mac]

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    jiles

    Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 11:06 AM

    australian pricong is
    10GB $21
    20GB $42
    50GB $105
    plus the already provided free 5GB

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      TSH

      Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 11:26 AM

      Nahh, more like

      5GB extra: AU$20
      20GB extra: AU$50
      50GB extra: AU$200

      It’s the Australia Tax.

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        Kroo

        Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 7:30 PM

        Nup, like jiles said ^^^
        anything else you say is wrong.
        Prices inclusive of GST

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    Macca

    Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 11:06 AM

    extra 10GB for $20 usd &
    extra 20gb for $40 usd, is that editor job still available? :D

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    Andrew

    Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 11:13 AM

    SkyDrive. 25GB. FREE.

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      Francis M

      Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 11:43 AM

      +1 exactly

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      Matt L

      Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:42 PM

      +1

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    matteb

    Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 11:38 AM

    A big meh, don’t really see the point when you have 80gb of music alone, let alone photo’s and videos… better off just using dropbox and keeping everything else on your comp/phone/ipod/external hdd backup

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      Damo

      Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 4:17 PM

      Music isn’t counted towards the total (if you own it).

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      Kroo

      Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 7:22 PM

      Well actually, music, photos and emails are not counted in the 5GB free icloud. So ……. meh

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    Thorbjørn

    Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:23 PM

    Looks like it’ll be worth using for photos….. That’s it.

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    Nads

    Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:48 PM

    Can someone explain this to me I may be a bit slow but, is that data limit for music as well or is “iTunes match” separate because I have like over 100GB of music alone.

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      Robert

      Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 2:57 PM

      I went and had a look in the iTunes fineprint on their website. It appears that music purchased from iTunes doesn’t count. HOWEVER, the fact that they make that distinction suggests that matched music bought elsewhere does count against your quota. It’s a fair rort, especially given that it only matches content that they already have, so it doesn’t actually cost them any additional capacity whatsoever.. AND you have to pay for the matching service before you begin with anyway.

      You and I both would be looking at $25 + $100 per year minimum,… for stuff purchased legally, but not from them. No thanks.

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    Nads

    Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM

    and only about 10% of that was purchased from iTunes the rest is my old CD collection ripped.

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    Matt Clarke

    Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 12:32 AM

    I’m thinking it would make more sense to go through the process of getting your home computer on the internet? How often are you really going to be accessing stuff anyway? The only handy thing I really see in this iCloud is the ability to have your mail synced between all devices, but then you have to get a me account.

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