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Comment by advisedwang | Hacker News Reader

Sad as I am to see "unlimited" go away, this is probably the best way to do it:

* Grandfathering existing photos means I don't have to worry about going back and deleting objects or getting an sudden bump in cost.

* 15 GB is pretty generous... iCloud includes 5GB for free.

* $2/month isn't a huge jump to the next level of storage.

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And what a shame iCloud's included storage is. One device's backups can dangerously close to 5gb without trying, and any additional device backups will easily push you over 5gb, effectively forcing you into the $1/mo storage plan or $4/mo if you want to share 200gb total with your family.

The worst part about iCloud is how slow it is and how much Photos on macOs crash. It’s barely usable for anything but previewing photos.

YMMV, I've got 300GB of photos in iCloud and I can count the amount of Photos crashes in the last 5 years with one hand.

I think I've got just a slight more and I can't count how many times it crashed within a week. It's abandonware.

That's exactly what happened to my mother, she owns an iPad and an iPhone and she's constantly being squeezed for money because her two devices' backups max out her storage. She rarely takes photos and doesn't upload anything to iCloud drive, it's just her backups.

Service business is good business. It's easy to get people paying the $1 for extra backup space.

Now you have their credit card in Apple Pay and you can get them paying for more stuff.

To be clear the 'high quality' is still unlimited. Only the 'original quality' will be quotaed.

Not so, that's exactly what's changing.

yes i see, its hard to read these things which are trying to be as positive as possible

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