Apple downgrading iCloud storage on September 30

Apple sends a warning to iCloud users regarding this Friday's downgrade of complimentary storage space from the MobileMe transition.

In an e-mail sent out to its iCloud subscribers who have kept with the service in its transition to iCloud, Apple is reminding users that their complimentary 20GB of extra storage from the MobileMe transition will be revoked on September 30.
Through the years of its cloud-based offerings, Apple has steadily increased the storage level offerings for its users, allowing them more options for distributing storage for various account services including iDisk and e-mail. The storage level for a basic account peaked at 20GB for a free MobileMe account and could be split among its e-mail and iDisk services depending on what the user needed.

With the transition to iCloud, Apple reassessed its storage offerings and introduced a new basic storage capacity of 5GB per user, claiming that most people did not come near using this amount. In addition, Apple's new syncing approach for user documents uses the iCloud storage as a syncing medium instead of a permanent storage location, resulting in less overall need for space.
Regardless of the new approaches, for users who transitioned from MobileMe to iCloud when it debuted in early June were given a complimentary but temporary 20GB storage upgrade through September 30, 2012, giving existing users more space for their e-mail, backups for iOS devices, and documents in the cloud services that are offered with iCloud (Photo Stream, and purchased apps, books, and music do not count). However, this complimentary storage is a temporary measure to facilitate the transition to iCloud, and on September 30, Apple will be downgrading all basic iCloud accounts to its base 5GB storage level.
If you are an iCloud user and have not used more than 5GB during the transitional period, then your storage levels will switch automatically without you having to do anything; however, if you have been using more than 5GB of storage, then you will have a choice of either clearing out documents from iCloud or purchasing more storage to meet your needs. To help remind those who are currently using more than 5GB of storage, Apple has sent out an e-mail outlining these options: