Following Tuedays iPhone/Apple Watch launch event, Apple have quietly released new monthly iCloud storage plans. This is supposedly getting ready for the new ‘iCloud Drive‘ functionality which will be supported in the new iOS 8 & OSX Yosemite operating systems. This is expected to be a real step up for Apple’s cloud services which have faced criticism in the last few years; especially with strong competition from Google Drive, DropBox & Microsoft’s SkyDrive. If so, this is good news for existing Apple users.
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So I bit the bullet…..
..and ordered an iPhone 5.
I have had for several years a Blackberry Curve 9300. While it remains in my opinion a great phone for business use; it’s not great at anything else; the app selection for Blackberry is possibly the worst of all the platforms. Also, Blackberry syncing to Apple has been poor and as I use iCal and Mail regularly; in theory an iPhone should work a lot better for me.
I am expecting the biggest change will be moving to a touch phone and I may miss the keyboard on the blackberry. Also being stuck with 16GB capacity and not being able to upgrade with memory cards. Although as the trend is now towards Cloud-based services this becomes less of a problem. I will also miss the ability to edit Microsoft Office Documents.
I will write some posts on how I have found the transfer in the next few months.
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