Is everyone getting iCloud storage notice warnings at the same time?
“What The F*** Is iCloud?”
It’s coming time for Apple users to pay their cloud storage dues. One problem: a lot of them have no idea what that even means.
I know, right? Now tell your friends!
"What The F*** Is iCloud?"
John Herrman
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve gotten multiple warnings from Apple that my iCloud storage is nearly full. If not for my line of work, this would have been one of the first times I’d been asked to think about iCloud, Apple’s automatic online backup and sync service, since updating to iOS 5. It’s also the first time I’ve been asked to pay for it — I had assumed, perhaps wrongly, that since my first backups didn’t exceed the 5GB free storage allotment I would never need to pay.
While the warning emails have been part of iCloud from the beginning, Apple appears to be nudging its users lately:
At the low rate my storage demands are increasing, I’m probably only going to need to upgrade to the $20-a-year option. But still, at launch, iCloud didn’t feel like something I would need to pay for. Now, I’m stuck paying a yearly fee to keep syncing my backups over the air. To put it another way, I’m paying at least $20 a year to stop using iTunes.
This unpleasant surprise, if it’s as common as I think it will be, is a problem for Apple. But a bigger problem? A lot of the people getting these emails have no idea what iCloud is. And why should they?
iCloud works in the background and doesn’t really do anything; it’s mostly a backup tool, which means by definition you don’t see it working and rarely interact with it. iCloud isn’t an app — you don’t use it, it’s just something you have.
But I’m just annoyed that I’m getting asked to pay for something I thought I’d get away with using for free. Other people don’t know, or care, what it is in the first place. Here are some other people who don’t seem too excited about Apple’s upsell:
What the fuck is iCloud
What is iCloud ? Keep getting notifications about my settings on it and I don't even know what it does
what is an icloud
Had my iPhone for a couple of months and still don't know what iCloud is or how to use it...
anyone know what icloud is?
I do not understand anything about this iCloud malarky, I just keep getting notifications on my mac and iPhone that i've run out of space.
Trying to explain to my mother what iCloud is #hopeless
What is iCloud ??? Sum1 pls fill me in !!!
What is iCloud?
What do ppl do when their iCloud storage is almost full?
What is iCloud and do I want it?
So. What is iCloud
I don't understand what iCloud is.
Someone inform me what this iCloud shit is..
My iCloud storage is almost full. I thought it was a fuckin' cloud?
"Your iCloud storage is almost full," seriously DIE.
If an iCloud upgrade is going to be effectively mandatory — and of course our storage demands are going to get higher, especially with Mountain Lion on the horizon — Apple should probably do a better job of telling people about it. Nobody wants to pay for something they’ve never heard of.
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Miss Cellania 11 months agoOkay, I gather from the way the article is worded that this is not for ALL Apple users, just those who have Apple mobile devices. You had me scared for a second!
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jaygermeister 11 months agoThe author of this article is really showing his ignorance. The time it took him to write this stupid article he could have learned what iCloud was and realized it wasn’t just a backup service.
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bearsfan34 11 months agoLike several here have already said, it amazes me how many people just don’t take the time to learn on their own. “I don’t know what iCloud is!” Uhhhhh, ever heard of Google? Ever heard of Apple? You know, the company with the logo of an Apple with a bite out of it on the back of your phone or tablet or computer? They send you emails about their products you own…DO YOU READ THEM? Not to mention the “let me Google that for you” website. This is not difficult to do. Lazy, dumb people most of these dopes appear to be. Take the 5-10 minutes to read about what iCloud is. It’s explained, even with videos, on Apple’s own website. I direct people there, it’s easier than trying to explain it. *Sigh* I see dumb people.
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HiddenAgenda 11 months ago
And all these idiots are gonna pay the money when they don’t need too… good for them …that’s what you get for not educating yourself and knowing how to manage files.
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SamMicCham 11 months ago
I used to work as an AppleCare rep (phone support) and the most common issue with iCloud we’d get is people confusing their phone’s storage with icloud. As in, the 16GBs on their phone would fill up, and they’d buy iCloud storage and wonder why they were still getting no storage alerts. Explaining the difference between their phones internal storage and the iCloud backup storage was much more difficult than I would have liked it to be.
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AdventureNeckbeard 11 months agoOr maybe people just need to learn how to educate themselves.
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hawnkane86 11 months agoThe usage of iCloud was able to get me back 3/4 of stuff on my iPad that suddenly went whoops
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