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Anyone else received this much welcomed email this morning?


Your complimentary iCloud storage upgrade has been extended at no charge said:
Dear Michael,

When you moved your MobileMe account to iCloud, we provided you with a complimentary storage upgrade beyond the standard 5GB that comes with an iCloud account to help you with the transition. Originally, this storage upgrade was set to expire on September 30, 2012.

As a thank you to our former MobileMe members, we will continue to provide you with this complimentary storage upgrade at no charge, for an additional year, until September 30, 2013. No action is required on your part. For complete details, please read this article.

Thank you again for using iCloud,

iCloud Team
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I've not got one :(, I have seen on a blog site that some members had been upgraded for free to the 50GB with no expiry date by error. Not sure if it was true or not thou.
 
Ditto.

Not particularly bothered though, as I'm barely using 1GB (backups of iPhone & iPad), the basic 5GB would be plenty for me.
 
Got one too which is nice. I've been adding quite a lot of work to icloud recently but probably wouldn't break 5gb, let alone 25gb lol. Still its a nice gesture from a company thats very focused on profits.
 
Yep.

Nearly breaking the 5GB barrier since iOS backs up to the cloud now. Just wish they'd bring back iDisk!
 
12 months is neither here nor there though. It should be permanently free due to the inconvenience caused to some MobileMe customers.

They are just deferring another "shift your stuff before we delete it" notice.
 
I've got a hunch that Apple couldn't work out how to deal with ex-.Mac/MobileMe accounts that have too much data in them. They've chucked the loyal customers a bonus before they upgrade everyone's space for free at some point in the next twelve months.
 
They really could (should?) deal with it now for existing customers and remove the uncertainty.

If you take SkyDrive for example, when that service changed relatively heavy users were automatically upgraded to 25GB for free, existing users could opt-in for 25GB for free, and new customers signed up to the new terms (7GB for free). It's done and dusted.

It wouldn't be much skin off the Apple to just give ex-.Mac/MobileMe customers a free and permanent upgrade which would restore not only some good will but confidence in the service.
 
Seems like early adopters lose out as usual. I think I moved when iCloud was first released which I think was before October. Would explain why my storage hasn't been upgraded.
 
You're not exactly an early adopter.

I was using it when it was called iTools well over 10 years ago. More recently it was a pay service called .Mac, then MobileMe before it went free again and morphed into iCloud. The .Mac subscribers got 10GB hence why some may experience space issues when they get a reduction to 5GB.
 
MagicBoy said:
You're not exactly an early adopter.

I was using it when it was called iTools well over 10 years ago. More recently it was a pay service called .Mac, then MobileMe before it went free again and morphed into iCloud. The .Mac subscribers got 10GB hence why some may experience space issues when they get a reduction to 5GB.
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I meant early adopter as in switching quickly over to iCloud when it became available.
 
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