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Apple announces iCloud pricing
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 3 August 2011
Apple has announced the US pricing of its iCloud online storage system, which is due to launch later this year (in America, UK launch likely in 2012). As previously reported, the service will keep contacts, calendars, photos, emails and apps synced across all of your Apple devices (and PCs, too) without you having to do anything. Of course, iCloud also features a licensed music locker function, which will allow you to upload all of your music to the internet and listen to it anywhere.
At launch, a 5GB iCloud account will be available to all for free. What’s more, music, apps and books purchased from iTunes, as well as photos taken on iOS devices (which will be automatically pushed to iCloud), will not count against that 5GB. Users can then purchase additional storage on top of that, with another 10GB costing $20 per year, 20GB costing $40 per year, and 50GB costing $100 per year.
That extra space may come in handy because, as previously announced, iCloud will allow you to upload your whole MP3 collection to your locker, oblivious of where you got your digital music from. Doing so will cost you $25 a year, a transaction which some have referred to as an amnesty on illegally downloaded music (though the rights owners would very much like you to stop calling it that, thank you very much).
iCloud will also launch with an online version of Apple’s iWork software, which will put it in competition with Google Docs and other similar cloud-based office-style software packages.
More information here.
