Apple today announced new 6TB and 12TB storage tiers for its iCloud+ subscription service, pushing past 2TB for the first time. Every Apple ID...
  • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t seen these 1 time payments work out well for cloud service companies that have monthly bills to pay.

    • dawa@programming.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      I know and I researched quite a bit before making the jump.

      Basically there are couple of things which make me think they won’t just shut down:

      • They’ve been around for quite a while (10 years as of now)
      • They’re betting on the ever decreasing costs of storage to manage their margin
      • They still try to sell you complementary products
      • They don’t ever have to increase your max storage unless you pay again
      • They still have monthly subscription available

      All in all, I’ve felt pretty safe using them and I’ve done the cloud provider switch once so I can do it again