Who pays for the costs of private cloud compute, is it free of charge for the iPhone owner (at least until they turn it into a subscription)?
What about second hand iPhone users?
What about second hand iPhone users?
My guess is that this is similar to how iOS upgrades are “free”, how Apple Maps is free, how iMessage is free, how iCloud Mail is free, etc. To a good extent, it’s all paid for by the price paid by the customer for the hardware.
I’d also wager that there will be a paid service/subscription that will get baked into iCloud+ at some point in time (maybe a year from now). This will offer a lot more and Apple will try to attract more customers into its paid services net.
Are the anonymized queries (minus user data context) worth anything?
It’s gotta be some kind of subscription/per query charge model to pay for the servers, electricity, and bandwidth.