Apple unveiled a new ICloud storage space upgrade and cloud computing services at this year's WWDC conference to strengthen ICloud's competitiveness. Replacing the VAIO notebook with a MacBook, or replacing the iPhone with Moto X, is simple, but the data transfer is difficult, which also increases the level of platform loyalty. In recent years, Apple's competitors have introduced a variety of better control of user data, so the ICloud storage space added more features, significantly lower prices, for consumers and developers, more attractive.
Ordinary consumers
Many users feel that Apple provides free storage space is too stingy, each ICloud account has 5GB storage space. For the average user, 5GB will soon run out, especially those who like to take photos with the iPhone. At present, the Apple ICloud storage space upgrade program Price is high, 20 dollars a year can buy 10GB additional storage space, while 40 U.S. dollars can buy 20GB additional storage space, 100 USD can purchase 50GB additional storage space. 100 dollars can be purchased in Dropbox or Box 100GB storage space, while Google Drive offers 20 USD 1TB upgrade program.
ICloud storage space is typically used to synchronize data between IOS and MAC applications. However, Apple now publishes ICloud Drive, which means that users are free to store files in ICloud. After the release of IOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, Apple will still provide 5GB of storage space for free, but now only 0.99 dollars a month to get 20GB storage space, 3.99 dollars a month to obtain 200GB storage space. Apple said there are 1TB upgrades, but prices have not yet been announced.
The new ICloud storage space upgrade program makes ICloud Drive more competitive. For Apple device users, ICloud can provide a more seamless experience, and icloud.com also has many convenient Web applications, including Web pages Numbers, pages and Keynote office software.
Developers
Developers can use the advantages of ICloud Drive to store and synchronize the application documents and data, in addition, Apple also launched a developer-oriented Cloudkit. Cloudkit is a new service that allows developers to store user data into the cloud, supporting common files and databases. Cloudkit has a lot of advantages, and the free storage space offered by Apple is amazing. The application can first obtain 5GB normal file storage space, as well as 50MB database storage space, each new user can increase 100MB storage space and 1MB database storage space.
In the end, free Cloudkit can provide 10TB of normal file storage space and 5TB database storage space, Apple provides 5TB traffic every day. Compared with Amazon's S3 cloud service, Apple's free Cloudkit program saves developers $40,000 a month. The only limitation, of course, is that apps are only for Apple platforms.