IDG Contributor Network: Should you pay for additional iCloud storage?

Tim Cook once called iCloud the "strategy for the next ten years" and it's clearly become one of Apple's most important features across all of its devices. iCloud offers a range of different storage options, but are they worth paying for? Or does it make more sense to skip iCloud and store your data locally instead?Right now Apple offers three monthly iCloud storage tiers:50 GB: $0.99200 GB: $2.99
1 TB: $9.99The question of whether or not additional iCloud storage is worth buying came up in a re