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651 points openchampagne | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.499s | source
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canucker2016 ◴[04 Feb 25 22:22 UTC] No.42939824[source]▶
I think some demographic info can be useful in judging the potential uptake.

Apple iPhone ownership amongst USA teens:

2024: 87%

2019: 83%

2014: 67%

https://www.iclarified.com/95177/87-of-us-teens-own-iphones-...

https://www.pipersandler.com/news/piper-jaffray-completes-se...

https://www.pipersandler.com/news/different-new-cool-accordi...

Smartphone marketshare for iPhone in various countries:

65%: Norway

59%: Sweden/Japan/Canada/USA

49%: UK

30-39%: Germany/Portugal/Italy

other countries are lower from my random sampling of developed countries (South Korea is dominated by Samsung).

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/norway

Change last part of url to get info for another country

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talldayo ◴[04 Feb 25 22:23 UTC] No.42939836[source]▶
> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

I really wonder what the uptake is on iCloud+ subscriptions.

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crazygringo ◴[04 Feb 25 23:14 UTC] No.42940581[source]▶
Pretty high I suspect, since you need it if you want to back up more that 5 GB.

If you keep photos and videos without dealing with a separate service, it's pretty much a no-brainer. And the cheapest tier is $0.99/mo. for 50 GB so it's not exactly breaking the bank.

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m463 ◴[04 Feb 25 23:34 UTC] No.42940884[source]▶
> And the cheapest tier is $0.99/mo. for 50 GB so it's not exactly breaking the bank.

This is a huge trick. Like any other service where the most friction is setting up billing... then they can increase the price easily. Do upgrades to other tiers require confirmation?

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crazygringo ◴[04 Feb 25 23:39 UTC] No.42940945[source]▶
You have to explicitly upgrade.

There's no trick as far as I can tell.

And they haven't increased the price of the $0.99 tier ever, and it's been around for 8 years I think. I don't think they've ever increased the price of any storage plan in the US ever -- prices in other countries have changed but that seems to do more with currency fluctuations.

Apple is known for their transparent pricing and easy cancellation. I don't think there are any tricks here.

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sfRattan ◴[05 Feb 25 00:15 UTC] No.42941385[source]▶
If anything their trick is in how they describe the storage tiers on their website[1]:

> $0.99/mo for 50GB: Storage for thousands of photos, videos, and files.

> $2.99/mo for 200GB: Great for family sharing or larger media libraries.

> $9.99/mo for 2TB: Plenty of space for all the family’s photos, videos, and files.

Other than the $0.99 tier, these storage numbers are comically low for the uses cases Apple describes in plain English. But that's par for the course with Apple... An arm, a leg, and your firstborn for storage and RAM upgrades. As in hardware, so in SaaS cloud storage, I guess.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/icloud/

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Schiendelman ◴[05 Feb 25 01:25 UTC] No.42942210[source]▶
I did professional photography on the side for the better part of a decade before needing to go above 2TB. You don't have to hoard.
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sfRattan ◴[05 Feb 25 01:58 UTC] No.42942542[source]▶
I agree on photos, but when I hear "larger media library" I assume we're talking video content, both family videos taken on phones and commercial media (TV and Movies). Maybe I'm misreading but either 200GB or 2TB are both very small for a whole family's collection of video media.
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1. solid_fuel ◴[05 Feb 25 04:00 UTC] No.42943583[source]▶
Honestly, most families do not maintain a digital collection of media. And I say that as someone who does. Most families just have a netflix or prime or apple tv subscription, maybe cable. If there's a collection, it's probably DVD or Blu-Ray still.