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I was going to say: "Ahh, they're just copying Apple's bizarre iCloud storage prices" except at $1.99/month for the 50 GB plan they're actually charging double Apple's. Given that Apple is just reselling various cloud storage services, this really is a combination of disabling the unlimited (fine) and a profit grab at the low end (sigh).

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Given that Apple is just reselling various cloud storage services

Do you have a cite for this claim?

Apple has built a number of giant data centers. They shouldn't need to resell cloud storage.

Though there are a couple articles on this, Apple's own security whitepaper actually acknowledges the use of Amazon S3 and Azure (page 41 as of 11/2/15):

http://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

Also, if you have a Mac (or I believe the PC iCloud app now supports iCloud Photo Library uploads), you can watch your network traffic, and last time I checked it also was connecting to some Amazon/AWS domains[1].

[1]: Others have also found the same-- http://appinstructor.com/blog/2015/apple-using-amazon-s3-sto...

> Do you have a cite for this claim?

Use Little Snitch firewall and you will see it.

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