Apple just increased the price fees for its Internet services. iCloud in a few countries. This is due to the devaluation of the currency of these countries against the dollar. So for now, Western Europe and South America are not affected.
The fact is that the countries that have been affected by the increase will have seen how suddenly the different iCloud plans have been increased an average of 25%. Let’s see where this increase has been applied.
In the US and most of the world, Apple’s cloud services, iCloud, they still cost the same. But the fact is that there are certain countries, which have been devaluing their local currency against the dollar, which have just suffered a significant increase in the price of these services. Almost 25% on average.
In other words, if the currency of that country has lost value, Apple has decided to raise the price to continue charging the same. What we don’t know is if it will use this logic for devices as well. At the moment, it doesn’t look like it will.
The countries affected by the increase are the United Kingdomand some countries Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, middle East and Africa. Countries like Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
It should also be added that curiously, the iCloud cloud service is also part of the service package Apple One. However, the prices of said package have not suffered any variation. We will see if they also increase in price in the coming days.
As we said at the beginning, this price increase is due to the devaluation of currency of these countries against the dollar. As the Euro remains strong, at the moment there is no risk of this happening in Europe. Another thing will be in some Latin American countries. We will see…