Amazon Drive is the latest cloud storage service to nix unlimited plan in favor of 1TB option

Like Microsoft's OneDrive a while back, Amazon Drive pulls the unlimited cloud storage plug, offering 1TB instead for $60 a year.

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Amazon Drive is the latest cloud storage service to nix unlimited plan in favor of 1TB option

Like Microsoft's OneDrive a while back, Amazon Drive pulls the unlimited cloud storage plug, offering 1TB instead for $60 a year.

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Apple is discreetly pulling out all the stops to help iOS 11 users better manage their internal storage

A bunch of useful new options and features seem to be added to iOS 11 to easily save and free up internal storage whenever you might need that.

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Apple offers more iCloud storage for less on top-tier plan: 2TB at $10 a month

5GB of free iCloud storage is still not ideal, but an extra 50 gigs at $0.99 a month or a whopping 2TB in exchange for $10 sounds pretty sweet.

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Google Drive annual plans look to be in the making

If you’d pay a lump sum fee and hope to gain some sort of discount for a bulk buy, you’d join those wholesale warehouse clubs, wouldn’t you? Well, if you decided to get a year’s worth of services from software vendors, you’d expect the same thing.

Google has somewhat caught onto this. Android Police has tracked down new annual plan options for the 100GB and 1TB tiers of Google Drive storage. Instead of paying $1.99 or $9.99 per month for the extra cloud space, you can pay $19.99 or $99.99 on an annual basis for each tier — basically getting 12 months of service for the price of ten.

Dropbox has been offering the same sort of discount for its Pro plans for a couple of years going on now.

The Drive annual plans are apparently not live yet, but given that we’ve got a screenshot to show this off, we presume it can’t be too far in the offing.

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Amazon Prime members get Family Vault unlimited photo storage sharing with up to five people

Perhaps fearing the recent launch of an Alexa-supporting Spotify rival fittingly dubbed Amazon Music Unlimited would steal some of Prime’s thunder, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant has just sweetened the deal for subscribers to the fast and free shipping-focused service.In addition to all the ordering perks you’re probably already familiar with, unlimited Prime Video streaming of tens of thousands of movies and TV episodes, Prime Music access to over a million songs and thousands of curated ...

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Verizon ruins the Galaxy Note 7 and Samsung’s planned freebies

Verizon’s preferences have overtaken Samsung’s plans for a uniform customer experience on the Galaxy Note 7. It’s not a newly-found habit for the Checkmark, but this time around, it seems really cheap.If you’re still considering getting a Galaxy Note 7, let this ...

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Time to say goodbye to a large chunk of your free OneDrive storage (maybe)

Microsoft pulled a very uncool stunt on both Office 365 subscribers and users of its free OneDrive file hosting tier last fall, massively reducing previous cloud storage perks across the board, but in the face of public outrage, some of the controversial policy changes were temporarily reversed in December.This January 31, your window of opportunity closed for good, and ...

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Office 365 Personal subscriptions now offered to some OneDrive users nearing their free storage limit

First, Microsoft abruptly took away people’s unlimited OneDrive cloud storage due to “abuse”, and inexplicably downgraded free accounts from 15 to 5GB digital hoarding space. Then, pressed by backlash, the Redmond-based software giant reconsidered the latter move, but only tripled available storage back for folks who expressly declared their desire.Everyone else was still supposed to keep the 15 gig ceiling through the ...

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Microsoft wants a piece of HERE Maps for the same reason Amazon does

Nope, it’s necessarily about bringing back the HERE Maps app to Windows Phone. But where is it going to go from there? Well, nowhere, not unless Microsoft helps it along. Or Amazon. Or both.Both Amazon and Microsoft have been working on cloud server agreements with HERE, formerly Nokia-run, now in the hands of a German ...

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January 31 marks end of OneDrive and BLU promos, Songza

We’re close to, but have not quite reached January 31st, 2016. And that date, while it marks the last day of the first month for the year, also signals that the end is imminent. The end is by us for some major benies from the old guard, a fresh face and the termination of a startup gone Google.We start with Microsoft’s OneDrive — and like most cloud storage clients, it offers some free space for new users before charging them for more storage. OneDrive has been offering 15GB of base storage with an extra 15GB for those who activate the Camera Roll feature for backing up ...

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Microsoft backtracks on some (not all) of its controversial OneDrive changes

A little over a month ago, Microsoft made some controversial changes to OneDrive storage offerings, sending out waves of dissatisfaction amongst users of the cloud service. Unlimited storage was being killed off in favor of a 1TB tier, 100GB and 200GB options were disappearing for new users, and maybe impacting the widest swath of users, OneDrive’s free storage option was shrinking from 15GB ...

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Is the myth of cloud-everything the reason we still have 16 GB phones?

Running low on storage sucks. As I’m sitting typing this, I’m deleting files off of the external drive I store video on so I have room for new clips in the future, because I’m nearly out of storage. Nobody likes seeing the “low storage” warning on their devices, and it’s even more frustrating when it happens on your smartphone, since there’s already so little room on there to begin with. At least I had a whole terabyte to go through before almost filling my external hard drive. On my phone, there’s only 32 GB to begin with, not even ...

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