In an e-mail sent out to its iCloud subscribers who have kept with the service in its transition to iCloud, Apple is reminding users that their complimentary 20GB of extra storage from the MobileMe transition will be revoked on September 30.
Through the years of its cloud-based offerings, Apple has steadily increased the storage level offerings for its users, allowing them more options for distributing storage for various account services including iDisk and e-mail. The storage level for a basic account peaked at 20GB for a free MobileMe account and could be split among its e-mail and iDisk services depending on what the user needed.
iCloud offers 5 gigabytes of free storage for mail, documents, and backup. Purchased music, apps, and books don't count against the 5GB.
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With the transition to iCloud, Apple reassessed its storage offerings and introduced a new basic storage capacity of 5GB per user, claiming that most people did not come near using this amount. In addition, Apple's new syncing approach for user documents uses the iCloud storage as a syncing medium instead of a permanent storage location, resulting in less overall need for space.
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