Following last night's announcement of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and the Apple Watch, Apple has updated its website with new iCloud price plans ahead of the iCloud Drive's roll out for iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
As revealed earlier this year at WWDC, the new iCloud tariffs show that members will automatically get 5GB of free storage for each iCloud account, as they do now. For more storage, 79p per month will buy you 20GB of storage. If that's not enough, you can get 200GB of storage for just £2.99 each month.
There will also be a 500GB deal for £6.99 per month and a 1TB plan for £14.99 per month, although the latter actually costs more per gigabyte than either the 200GB or 500GB plans.
Dropbox, by comparison, offers 1TB of storage for $9.99 per month, which works out to approximately £6.20. This is much cheaper than Apple's new plan and matches the 1TB plan currently offered by Google Drive, which is also $9.99/month. Dropbox also allows users to expand their initial 2GB of free storage up to 16GB via family and friend referrals, while Google Drive gives all users 15GB for free the instant they sign up for a Google account.
Apple is still likely to sell a lot of upgrades, as iOS 8 can upload all of your photos to the cloud automatically; with iOS 7, only 1,000 photos were uploaded and only stayed in the cloud for 30 days. You can get iCloud Drive once iOS 8 officially launches on September 17th, two days before the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sale.
The new operating system, iOS 8, will be coming to the iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s as well as iPad 2, iPad with Retina Display, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPad Mini with Retina Display and the fifth generation iPod Touch. Read our guide on how to prepare your iPhone or iPad for iOS 8.
