Subscription vs One-Time-Payment

Apple wants developers to build up a subscription model for the usage of their apps. How much do they think a normal customer will spend on subscriptions each month? There's already a plan with your provider and TCO for your iThings (e.g. Apple Care, battery replacement, screen repair, asset cost for a successor, etc). How …

Cloud Conditions Today

Oh Albert, you're always right."Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."One side of the coin is the price for cloud storages of well-known providers.Provider . Plan . USD/y . USD for 100 GB/yDropbox 1000 GB 99.99 / 9.99Google Drive 100 GB 21.99 / 21.99Mega 200 GB 59.88 …

Cloudy iCloud?

It's an essential part of Apple's ecosystem. Even if syncing between devices isn't what you need because you own just one device iCloud does a lot of things for you automatically. 5 GB is free, if you want more it's quite affordable. 50GB for €0.99 is definitely a good deal compared with other providers e.g. …

Family Sharing

With iOS 8 Apple introduced Family Sharing and this is what we can read about this new feature ... A new way to bring harmony to your family’s digital life. Family Sharing makes it easy for up to six people in your family to share each other’s iTunes, iBooks, and App Store purchases without sharing …

Facts about iWork for iCloud

Since October 2013, shortly after Apple's Keynote event, iWork for iCloud is available as a beta version going along with a redesign of it's components Keynote, Numbers, and Pages. The iOS 7 adapted productivity tool is now free for new purchased devices. iWork for iCloud now allows working on documents across all kind of devices …