Apple iCloud

A vital part of Apple’s ecosystem and essential for iPad, iPhones and Macs– but a touch expensive

PRICE 5GB, free; 20GB, £0.79/mth; 200GB, £3/mth; 500GB, £7/mth; 1TB, £15/mth from apple.com/uk/icloud Rather than a straight cloud-storage service, Apple iCloud is a bundle of services that enables iOS devices to work more effectively with each other, and with OS X and Windows PCs. While it’s now integrated into iOS 8.2 and OS X Yosemite, and is fast becoming the primary means of backup on the former, a combination of web-based apps and a Windows client give it some useful applications on Windows systems as well. Mail, contacts and calendar data sync with desktop Outlook, while online versions of Apple’s iWork office apps mean you can start a document on your iPad then edit it on your PC. You can browse, download and edit photos using Apple’s Photo Stream service, and finally…

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