Yesterday Apple released cloud storage service iCloud for developers. Along with this release, Apple has announced the pricing for storage upgrades to the service: yearly fees of $20 for 15 GB total, $40 for 25 GB total and $100 for 55GB total. The service comes with a standard 5 GB of free storage for each user, allowing users with more data to choose how much storage they need and wish to pay for. 9to5Mac reports that Photo Stream images don’t count toward the data tally.

Today Apple released an FAQ on the MobileMe to iCloud transition, stating definitively that users will have web access to iCloud apps. Services like Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Bookmarks, Find My iPhone and Back to My Mac will be transferred from MobileMe to iCloud. Services not making the transition include iWeb publishing, Gallery and iDisk; TechCrunch notes that while Gallery is being replaced by Photo Stream, there is no announcement yet whether Photo Stream will allow you to publish your photos to icloud.com. Other additions to iCloud include iTunes in the Cloud, Documents in the Cloud and a backup and restore function.

Apple has filed to acquire trademarks for Airdrop and Photo Stream. Airdrop is a program that allows wireless file-sharing without a Wi-Fi network, and will be released as a feature of Lion. Photo Stream will be part of iCloud services, allowing users to share their photos with all their devices instantly without syncing.

[Patently Apple]
[9to5Mac]