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I’ve done the math on whether it’s cheaper to pay for 1tb of local storage or 1tb of cloud, and local wins.

What about for a whole family of iPhone users? I've got the 2TB cloud plan which my elderly parents are on, my kids are on and me and my wife are on which is letting us get away with the smallest class of storage for each device we have.

Fair question! To figure this out, you could calculate the price per GB that you're paying and that you would pay for local and compare the two values. Cloud storage can and often does have a better deal in instances like yours!

With that said, your instance is just your instance, and for swathes of people it will be cheaper to have local storage. Them having the option of local storage wouldn't hurt you, so I would hope for their sake you would still support giving them that choice.

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