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Question

Do I need more than 16G with the iCloud?

by Oct 5, 2011 4:29AM PDT

If you use the icloud, doesn't that mean that you will need less of a hard drive going forward? Why would you want to go higher than 16g?

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I remember a well known Software company owner stating,
by Forum moderator Oct 5, 2011 10:21AM PDT

"who would need any more than 40MB of hard drive" (words to that effect)

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I remember a well known Software company owner stating,
by oneillandy Oct 5, 2011 11:36PM PDT

Right, I understand how it can add up, but if you are using the cloud, doesn't the cloud store your music, pics, video, etc? So why do you need to have a large physical hard drive?

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I see your point, but,
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Oct 6, 2011 9:00AM PDT

will you be streaming your music from the iCloud all the time?
That would eat into your data plan, big time.

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