Bingo. There are 5 of us and we each have 1 tb each, plus I get an hour of skype international each month and we all have microsoft office. It's the best deal out there for storage alone.
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Dumped My Paid iCloud Drive Subscription. iCloud Drive Sucks.
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Bingo. There are 5 of us and we each have 1 tb each, plus I get an hour of skype international each month and we all have microsoft office. It's the best deal out there for storage alone.
i just want a service that is seamless .. and gives me a space to backup my photos .. store any documents .. pics .. videos or music and be accessible from anywhere .. is one drive it ? Currently I am subscribed to 200gb iCloud plan .. but thinking of canceling
Just went back to DropBox because it's so reliable. I don't have that much but it's really important files and I've seen to many issues reported to take the risk.
May try iCloud drive again after a few updates.
May try iCloud drive again after a few updates.
I gave up on almost everything that has to do with "Cloud". Then I tookthe plug with a Synology with the DS214Play with it's excellent Download packages and VPN server it works out great while out on the road with my iOS device.
I am all about OneDrive and Office365. For $6.99 per month I get Office on my MacBook Pro and on my iPad. Also Microsoft made OneDrive with unlimited cloud storage for those on Office365. They plan to take out other cloud providers because none of the other cloud providers will come close to what Microsoft offers.
As for iCloud Drive yes it sucks and Apple is making it hard for developers to use it in their apps. I am on the smallest plan for $.99 just for device backups and the few things it's good for. Might cancel it but do know if it never improves I will never upgrade.
As for iCloud Drive yes it sucks and Apple is making it hard for developers to use it in their apps. I am on the smallest plan for $.99 just for device backups and the few things it's good for. Might cancel it but do know if it never improves I will never upgrade.
Yep, already signed up to be in line for the first updated yesterday when it was announced. It made the best deal for online storage alone even better.....plus you get office as a bonus.
The storage is unlimited? You mean unlimited space?
When I look at OneDrive storage plans it looks like 15GB free, 100GB for $1.99/month, 200GB for $3.99/month, and 1TB for $6.99/month (which includes Office 365).
Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant by "storage is now unlimited" ?
Oh right, thanks. Seems good.. Maybe I'll subscribe to the Office 365 + 1 TB option to get this...
Except, on my OneDrive home page (or whatever you call it), if I click "Plans" it says $9.99 for the Office 365 + 1 TB, yet on their blog post:
https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage/
.. it says "Unlimited OneDrive storage and Office from $6.99/month".
I wholeheartedly hope that he reads your thorough and important email and takes everything you so clearly stated into full account, and then some! The doubter in me says that he likely wont but one can only cross their fingers, hope, and then, maybe, spam the hell out of him!
I mean, what other options other than emailing him directly is there left for us as consumers to do other than putting our money where our mouths are by ceasing to buy future 
products? Good on you for taking time to at least try! Itd be in his best interest if he does get around to reading it
As an aside, this is the first time I've ever been too legit scared to update to the new Apple versions (Yosemite and/or iOS 8). I thought I left all of that trepidation behind when I decidedly switched from Microsoft/Windows stuff a few years back after coming close to flinging my 2 month old plastic-y Dell craptop out of my 8th storey window, sending it off to die with the death of XP MS. Switching back to Apple again (Id used mostly used Macintosh in the 90s, thanks to it being my familys computer) turned out to be one of my better decisions in life and havent regretted it whatsoever. I know theres a lot of people out there whove done the same as I.
The conundrum that gets me a bit hot under the collar, though, is that we pay at least twice the cost for supposedly superior quality and performance, which
and fans often like to tout, but as of late this presentation of itself as such is really beginning to falter in its own ability to live up to that notion and, in all actuality, is looking more and more like a preconceived misconception based on its past (*cough* when Steve Jobs was alive and controlling things *cough*). Quite sad, really. (I know many here will likely wave me away and consider my sentiments as bleak and overly alarmist ). I sincerely do hope will prove me wrong and are able to find their footing once again, I really do
but they seriously better hurry it up.Anyway, thank you, ZombiePete, for sharing your email to Tim Cooke with us here.
For my rather pricey plan I get 5 users
BUT, even if you don't have multiple users, anyone with a single login can share all photos, from anywhere. Anyone can share 1Password keychains. You can put whatever you want on the drive.
Dropbox works like what you expect from a cloud drive. iCloud Drive does not.
I'm sorry, but your expectations were simply wrong. Nowhere does Apple indicate, imply or otherwise allude to the ability to share a drive with multiple users. You say that it's a common feature with competing products, but it's not--unless you subscribe to a much more expensive plan with multiple users.
Yes, on other services like Dropbox or Google Drive multiple users can log in using the same credentials--iCloud is no different. Share your Apple ID & password and anybody you want can sign in on any device they choose. Or they can go to iCloud.com and sign in there.
You won't want to do that though, because then all of your data in iCloud will be accessible by everyone you share with. iCloud serves a much bigger purpose than Dropbox or Google Drive. It keeps all of your stuff in sync across all of your Apple devices. If you're living entirely in the Apple ecosystem it works wonderfully. If you're not, then it probably isn't going to do anything for you. If you want a simple cloud based drive to share files that are isolated from the rest of your stuff, then Dropbox, Skydrive, Box or Google Drive are great solutions.
iCloud--even iCloud Drive--isn't the same thing.
I'm sorry that you want the product to be something that it's not. That's not Apple's fault.
Nice spin, but still doesn't answer the simple question: why isn't the space shareable among users, if they so desire? It can certainly track what access to allow to secure content by your separate login, so your Safari history will remain yours....
Apple certainly implies that you can in its description and I am sure it will get slapped either by regulatory action, like in the EU, or by a class action in the US.
Other services which allow multi-user shared space accounts can deal with it, why can't Apple?
I upgraded to the 20 gb option just for backing up my iPhone and iPad.
Except that my girlfriend has the 64GB version, so 20GB is woefully inadequate.
I have no idea what Apple is thinking, but their advertising is misleading, the tiering is all wrong for their own hardware and the iCloud service is shoddy....
Well actually backups don't take that much space. All the things that take up considerable amount of space (music, apps, etc) are all redownloaded from the iTunes server. I know this because one day I forgot to backup my iPhone 5 before getting a replacement so before I arrived at the store I started an iCloud backup and it took about 20 minutes to complete. When I got the new one I started the restore and it all came back. I went to delete the backup from iCloud and the entire file only took about 2.5GB, most of which I think was my Camera Roll (since I hate Photos in the Cloud all together, no matter if its my entire library or just Photo Stream it doesn't work well for me).
Mind you, I had the 32GB iPhone but the free 5GB iCloud account.
Personally, I was willing to fork over the $1 a month to get 20GB. If Dropbox offered a similar plan I would have jumped on that since the the free account (which I have expanded to 4.25GB since I invited people) has limited space.
Since you can't view the PDFs in Pages for iOS its quite pointless to use iCloud Drive. Its really more like a re-incartation of iDisk where it can't be accessed on iOS but it can be on OS X. Until that long-rumored Preview app for iOS comes out, I'll stick to Dropbox. While I don't have many files, the ones I have in there are important for one reason or another and come in handy quite often.
Nope.
I'm downgrading my plan with iCloud.
What happened? It's just not anywhere near intuitive. No Preview?! WTF?
I'm even finding it close to impossible to get photo stream to work in any meaningful way. Totally can't trust it.
When DropBox hit it home with their 1TB plan Apple should have taken a view on iCloud and sorted it out, because right now it's a mess and an expensive subscription model when compared to the competition.
I know DropBox isn't perfect, but it should tell you something when I say it wipes the floor with iCloud.
iCloud is a joke.
I'm downgrading my plan with iCloud.
What happened? It's just not anywhere near intuitive. No Preview?! WTF?
I'm even finding it close to impossible to get photo stream to work in any meaningful way. Totally can't trust it.
When DropBox hit it home with their 1TB plan Apple should have taken a view on iCloud and sorted it out, because right now it's a mess and an expensive subscription model when compared to the competition.
I know DropBox isn't perfect, but it should tell you something when I say it wipes the floor with iCloud.
iCloud is a joke.
Yes, it's a great deal and OneDrive is definitely better than iCloud. I subscribed for a year to try it out, based on the posts here.
But OneDrive has, in a rather old Microsoft way, a fatal flow I just discovered:
OneDrive cannot sync any files or folders containing characters like :,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*
This is a throwback to the dawn of cloud storage and I am simply amazed that Microsoft has not figured it out, the way Dropbox and Google Drive have.
Yes, it's a great deal and OneDrive is definitely better than iCloud. I subscribed for a year to try it out, based on the posts here.
But OneDrive has, in a rather old Microsoft way, a fatal flow I just discovered:
OneDrive cannot sync any files or folders containing characters like :,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*
This is a throwback to the dawn of cloud storage and I am simply amazed that Microsoft has not figured it out, the way Dropbox and Google Drive have.
I was all enthusiastic about Onedrive as well, and set it up including renaming all files with the rejected :,!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*.
Then I found it doesn't sync OS X meta data like tags, and aliases and symlinks, so I have gone back to Dropbox.
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Can't believe Apple, the big kahuna, would put forth and iCloud service as pathetic as Drive. Oh great, I can access all my documents, Word, pdf, and other non Apple created docs on my Mac, but what if I need access to and Excel spreadsheet or .docx file on my iPad in a business meeting? I can't with this ridiculous excuse for a Cloud storage solution. Glad I didn't dump my Dropbox account like I was planning to when iCloud Drive was announced. But I sure the heck cancelled my iCloud Drive subscription. We've sure had some half-baked productions come out since Jobs (RIP) is gone.
Can't believe Apple, the big kahuna, would put forth and iCloud service as pathetic as Drive. Oh great, I can access all my documents, Word, pdf, and other non Apple created docs on my Mac, but what if I need access to and Excel spreadsheet or .docx file on my iPad in a business meeting? I can't with this ridiculous excuse for a Cloud storage solution. Glad I didn't dump my Dropbox account like I was planning to when iCloud Drive was announced. But I sure the heck cancelled my iCloud Drive subscription. We've sure had some half-baked productions come out since Jobs (RIP) is gone.
If you are living in the Apple system it is still unreliable. Documents are deleted, syncing gets stuck for weeks and you end up having to copy a document manually over a cable if you have to do work.
Apple is not transferring its hardware excellence to the cloud. I am beginning to wonder if the cloud for Apple is what viruses were for Microsoft. I am entirely in the Apple system, and I am fed up with iCloud Drive/iCloud/Mobile Me/iDisk or whatever other name they give the lemon. If they were proud of it, they wouldn't be rebranding it every two years. It just doesn't work.
Yeah. It's MobileMe Part II.
Apple just doesn't get the cloud. Meanwhile, others are filling the gaps. Maybe they should just hit the petty cash drawer and buy someone who knows how to make a useful cloud storage product.
Apple just doesn't get the cloud. Meanwhile, others are filling the gaps. Maybe they should just hit the petty cash drawer and buy someone who knows how to make a useful cloud storage product.