∞ Survey: 76% of iPhone users will use iCloud

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Mike Abramsky, analyst with RBC Capital Markets, revealed on Monday the results of a new proprietary survey of 1,500 respondents conducted between June 7 and 14. The poll found that 76 percent of iPhone users said they are “very” or “somewhat” likely to use Apple’s iCloud service, which would amount to 150 million users.

Honestly, that sounds low to me. iCloud does a lot and will be free — what’s bad about that?

76% of iPhone owners plan to use Apple’s iCloud, 30% interested in iTunes Match | AppleInsider


  • Anonymous

    The only reason I will hesitate about iCloud is privacy concerns and, to a lesser extent, uptime. I want to know more: can I use iCloud for some things, but not for others? If “the truth is in the cloud” then are local copies kept on each device? If I opt to (for whatever reason) shut off iCloud services to Device A, can it still sync its changes to Device B? What are the tradeoffs, what does iCloud NOT do? Until I come across that edge case (there is usually an edge case) that applies to me, I can’t really know if there is a compelling reason not to use it.

    All that being said, I’m pretty excited to use iCloud, but I do still have to overcome my old-fashionedness. I do like the feeling that my data is mine, that it lives within the universe of my devices and not out in the larger universe. Perhaps that’s overly fearful or old-fashioned…but it’s one of those comfort-level things, a psychological quality-of-life thing. If using Apple products for all these years has given me a feeling of reward, satisfaction and joy over using other systems (and I believe it has), then perhaps I would prefer not to diminish that, even if it’s undefinable why.

    Still, I think iCloud will be the bee’s knees.

  • IcyFog

    What iCloud doesn’t do, and won’t be allowed to do where I work, is sync some of my Outlook content to my iPhone and Mac. With MobileMe I can copy and paste content from my work, Microsoft PC that will then sync to my iDevices and Mac. 

  • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

    I think this number is pretty good considering when the survey took place and how much Apple had done to advertise the existence of iCloud to consumers so far — e.g. almost nothing.

    I believe the adoption rate will rise to close to 100% once Apple actually markets this product.
    Using this service is a no-brainer.

  • His Shadow

    76% plan to use it. 24% don’t watch Keynotes.

  • http://www.theuniversalsteve.com Anonymous

    iCloud requires updating to IOS5 and/or Lion. That might be an issue for some people. But I agree that 76% sounds low.