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Announced iCloud Pricing: How It Compares To Other Services

Announced iCloud Pricing: How It Compares To Other Services

Apple has finally unveiled its iCloud pricing structure for those customers that wish to purchase additional storage beyond the 5 GB each user receives free of charge. With this in mind, we thought it was important to compare these prices with those of similar products already on the market. To do so, we've compared iCloud prices with those of Dropbox, Amazon’s Cloud Drive and the Google Music Beta service.

Bryan M. Wolfe
Updated: Here's The Real Reason Apple Is Offering iCloud

Updated: Here's The Real Reason Apple Is Offering iCloud

We’ve heard a lot about Apple’s evolving iCloud project and expect to hear much more as the service goes online in the next few months. However, as much as Apple might want us to believe its future is “in the clouds,” it really isn’t. In fact, Apple is counting on it.

Bryan M. Wolfe
Can iCloud Resurrect Your Old MobileMe Accounts?

Now, without having to pay a cent, you'll be able to re-access all your expired email, storage and calendar accounts. Even better, they actually work right now, if you have iCloud-capable software (such as a beta of iOS 5 or OS X Lion).

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Say What? iCloud Powered By Microsoft, Amazon

Here’s something you won’t be reading in Apple’s iCloud promotional material; the cloud service relies on products from Microsoft and Amazon. In fact, for the time being anyway, it looks like Apple isn’t even using its North Carolina data center to backup data, according to ZDNet.

Bryan M. Wolfe
Lengthy iDevice Upgrades Could Soon Become A Memory

Believe it or not, some iPhone/iPod touch and iPad owners never attach their iDevice to their computer's iTunes application once it is activated for the first time. Unfortunately, come upgrade time the process takes a lot longer than it should. This is especially true for Apple Retail Store employees who are often the ones asked to do the upgrade. Luckily, iCloud is about to change that.

Bryan M. Wolfe