In the year 2030, Apple has released its first foldable phone. Prices start at $2,500 for up to 4 terabytes of storage. You don't have a lot of free storage.
It's just a joke. The hardware part is what I'm talking about. Apple still only gives you 5 gigabytes of storage for free with its cloud service. Is that really true? There is no argument that 5 gigabytes is not worth anything. Despite the fact that competitors offer a little more than that before going to paid tiers, Apple still only offers 5 gigabytes for free. It is time for Apple to increase that by a small amount.
Apple is a business and it wants to encourage people to pay for its services. I don't think 5 gigabytes is enough for most people to decide if they need or want it.
If you plan to take a lot of photos and videos to remember your trip, you might not be able to get through a vacation with 5 gigabytes of storage. That is especially true with a device like the iPhone 14 Pro, which is capable of 48MP full-resolution ProRaw photos and ProRes video, with the latter taking up to 6GB of space for just a minute of 4k footage.
One of the most useful cases for iCloud is the ability to back up your data on a new device. I have been backing up my own data for a long time. Apple made a change to allow users to have unlimited free storage for the sole purpose of backing up their apps and data to the cloud. If you want to restore that data to your new device, you have 21 days.
It is a step forward, but I still think it is time for Apple to increase the capacity of the device. Other companies are much more generous than it is.
The first thing that comes to mind is the internet giant. Apple doesn't give you as much free storage asgoogle does. Even though it is free to use, every single account has at least 15 gigabytes of storage.
For most people, that's enough, but if not, you can get more storage through the paid plans of the company. You can get 100GB for $2 per month, 200Gig for $3 per month, 2Gig for $10 per month, or 5Gig for $25 per month. Even with the paid plans, you can choose to cover the needs of most people.
The free amount is not the only thing that Apple is not willing to give. The cheapest storage plan is 50 gigabytes. The plans go up to 200GB for $3 per month and 2 terabytes for $10 per month. With the Apple One Premium plan, you can get up to 2TB of shared storage between up to six people, and you can get up to 2TB of iCloud storage as well.
A dollar per month is not a lot for most people. If you need more than that, you have to go to the next tier, which is 200 gigabytes. There is a balanced mix of storage tiers that gives people a bit of wiggle room with the base level before they jump to the next level.
There are other cloud sync and backup services that offer more storage for free, but they are not as good as those that offer 2 and 5 gigabytes of free storage. Both of these are more for your files and documents, so I wouldn't say they fall under the same umbrella as the other two.
I pay for Apple One Premium, so I have 2 terabytes of cloud storage, along with everything else in the bundle. I know of elderly family members who get error messages when they are told that their storage is full because they are still on the free plan. Andy Boxall mentioned in an earlier article that this is more of a software problem than a hardware one. I think Apple could throw everyone a bone and increase the size of the device to something more usable, such as the 15 gigabytes of storage offered by the internet giant.
It took Apple a long time to come out with a phone that had 1 terabytes of storage. I don't think it will go up in the next few years, but maybe in five years or so, we can have something more. It might be in time for the iPhone flip.
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