1TB – Adam's Blog

The long overdue and awaited by apple fans, iCloud is finally useful. Problem is, you still need to jump over obstacles for full reliable use. The iCloud now accepts all kind of files and offers 5GB free. Anything more and you will need to pay; pay way more than the competition with less features. For starters, there is no stand alone client on mac, PC or even iPhone. You can only upload using the browser interface which is great but not for a serious backing up purpose. Support and possibly a stand alone app is promised in the upcoming OSX 10.10.

The prices are as follow:

Country	Currency	20 GB	200 GB	500 GB	1 TB
Australia	AUD	$1.29	$4.99	$12.99	$24.99
Canada	CAD	$0.99	$3.99	$9.99	$19.99
China	CNY	¥6	¥25	¥68	¥138
Denmark	DKK	7 kr	29 kr	69 kr	139 kr
Euro^{2, 4}	Euro	0.99 €	3.99 €	9.99 €	19.99 €
Hong Kong	HKD	HK$ 8	HK$ 28	HK$ 78	HK$ 158
Iceland^{3, 4}	USD	$1.24	$5.01	$12.54	$25.09
India	INR	Rs 60	Rs 250	Rs 600	RS 1200
Indonesia	IDR	Rp 12000	Rp 45000	Rp 119000	Rp 229000
Israel	ILS	NIS 3.50	NIS 13.90	NIS 34.90	NIS 69.90
Japan	JPY	¥100	¥400	¥1200	¥2400
Mexico	MXN	$12	$49	$129	$249
New Zealand	NZD	$1.29	$4.99	$12.99	$24.99
Norway⁴	NOK	8 kr	29 kr	79 kr	149 kr
Russia	RUB	39 p.	149 p.	379 p.	749 p.
Saudi Arabia	SAR	SR 3.69	SR 14.99	SR 36.99	SR 74.99
Singapore	SGD	S$ 1.28	S$ 4.98	S$ 12.98	S$ 24.98
South Africa⁴	ZAR	R11.99	R49.99	R119.99	R249.99
Sweden	SEK	9 kr	35 kr	89 kr	179 kr
Switzerland⁴	CHF	CHF 1	CHF 4	CHF 10	CHF 20
Taiwan	TWD	NT$ 30	NT$ 120	NT$ 300	NT$ 590
Turkey	TRY	1.99 TL	7.99 TL	19.99 TL	39.99 TL
United Arab Emirates	AED	AED 3.69	AED 14.99	AED 36.99	AED 74.99
United Kingdom	GBP	£0.79	£2.99	£6.99	£14.99
United States	USD	$0.99	$3.99	$9.99	$19.99

As you can see, getting a 1TB is allot cheaper on Dropbox, OneDrive and even Google Drive. I cant read the future but if apple wants to fulfill the late Steve Job’s wish of killing dropbox then they will need to do something more, way more and at affordable prices considering the cloud war is raging. Let me know what you all think.

As a long time Dropbox user, the switch was hard and not even on my radar until I found out about the new Microsoft offer. While Dropbox’s 1TB for $10 was a good move, that only gets you an amazing sync tool with 1TB of online backup storage. Microsoft on the other hand offers the same space along with a few important extras:

1 year subscription includes the latest full Microsoft Office applications1
Share your subscription with up to four members of your household4
Office on 5 PCs or Macs plus five iPads or Windows tablets3
Easily access your docs with Office Mobile apps for iPhones, Android, and Windows phones
1TB OneDrive storage per user, for up to 5 users
Call phones in over 60 countries with 60 minutes of Skype calls per month2

A great offer indeed considering I am a heavy office user. A free 60 minute skype credit is a great bonus for the people that can use it, too bad Ukraine is not supported.

My experience so far

Upon syncing all my camera roll, I only got 1 error which was fixed by re syncing. The web interface looks good and works good. Not sure if my work PC or auto refresh is not working but everything seems fine.

I will be testing Office once I am home and the 5 PCs share option is great considering I have 2 and my brother can use one as well.

There are a few privacy conference as Microsoft might be monitoring for porn and other unacceptable materials but I have nothing to hide so no worries here. Will also start using OneNote as its part of the package. Great deal, well done Microsoft.