Kim Dotcom suffered a severe setback with the more than unfair closure of the mythical Megaupload site, but has managed to return little by little with renewed energy and good proof of this is the great adoption it has had MEGA, the new storage and download platform launched a long time ago. Now we get an app for iPhone as a gift, which was highly anticipated by all users of this website.
Perfect timing
The first thing we realize when using the app is that the quality is up to what we can expect. They have taken their time to launch it but once we entered with our MEGA account everything is going perfectly and we will rarely find ourselves moving files without using the maximum rate that our line allows, which is great especially when it comes to downloading.
The design is very functional and is oriented at all times to have our files in view, always respecting the new iOS 7 guidelines imposed by the Jony Ive team and offering a very positive feeling of integration with the system. The colors are nice and the elements used correspond to those used by most apps, so no help is needed to use the application.
A little more
MEGA has made a somewhat strange decision and that is that it offers to subscribe to its Premium version through the App Store. This is surprising because it makes almost a third of the profits go to Apple, something that almost all similar apps avoid by directing the purchase through Safari on the service's own website. In MEGA they may believe that sales will be higher by this method as it is faster and more intuitive, something that seems to me a great success despite the commission that Apple takes.
What is missing is a iPad version, which has not been released yet but it seems that it will be available in not long time. Due to the nature of the application, the version for the tablet is almost more interesting, but logically the priority is always the iPhone and later on it is already thought of releasing a version that natively supports the iPad.
The application is totally free, while if you take advantage of it, you can choose to pay any of the premium subscriptions.