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BY DANNY MATTESON
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There may not be a storm a brewin’, but there is a cloud rolling in.
Apple’s iCloud, that is.
The company launched the beta version of its cloud website early Tuesday.
“Apple has quietly lifted the curtain on iCloud.com ahead of the official launch, which is scheduled for some time this fall. In addition, the company has disclosed pricing for those looking to purchase storage in addition to the free 5 gigabytes provided to users.”
And according to CBS -- Apple may be courting a specific group of customers with its newest offering.
“Apple is aiming iCloud at those who have or hope to have an iPhone, an iPad and an Apple computer. With iCloud everything that’s on one of these devices is automatically on all of them.”
But Commentators at CNET TV are raining on this particular cloud’s parade.
“The number one thing we think iCloud needs or we at least were hoping it was going to get, is streaming. It’s not there. iCloud syncs your music on all your devices but the files all still live on your devices. You’re never streaming your stuff from the cloud purely the way Pandora, Rhapsody, Amazon, Google, Mog and just about everybody else is doing.”
Writers at GigaOm, however, see a silver lining -- in the service’s uniformity.
“Apple’s decision to go for a unified look and feel between the web-based iCloud presence, Mac apps and iOS software is a great idea...One experience, no matter where you access from, really helps the learning curve...”
Also released Tuesday were the yearly prices for the cloud service. Mashable has the details.
“The first 5 GB of storage on the service are free. An additional 10 GB will cost $20, 20 GB will cost $40 and 50GB will retail for $100.”
The details of the pricing plan, however, left commentators at Ubergizmo in a fog.
“Based on those price plans, it appears that Apple does not seem to be offering bulk discounts and we’re not sure why. Perhaps they’re limiting the amount people can store on their cloud accounts to prevent piracy?”
But, while writers at Pocket-Lint may not be on cloud 9, they do have a sunny disposition about the pricing plan.
“...plentiful storage then for a decent enough price. Just to put it in context, websites like Dropbox will charge $10 per month for 50GB or $19.99 for 100GB. Apple also doesn't count images sent to your photo stream as storage, so users will be able to snap away to their hearts content for free.”
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