Preserving your life's memories has never been cheaper — regardless of where and how you store it. Pay up or shut up, seriously.
Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
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Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#32> Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.” Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait & switch, and I saythat with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions
Is this not a commonality between most "tech companies". The combination of tech, moving fast, disruption, etc, means that there's a lot of promises that drop once reality hits.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#33For anyone looking for other options: I've been very pleased with Microsoft's Onedrive offering; I pay $70/year for access to all the Office apps plus 1TB of storage and their family plan is $100/year and supports up to 6 people, with 1TB of storage per account.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Marginal cost. You don't build one network per drive. I wouldn't personally say "essentially free" though.
The network was hardly the culprit in my explanation. How much is the cost of 4TB of georeplicated storage do you think? Surely you have to at least pay for the storage itself? So like $300-$400 at least if it's replicated 3-4x? And I haven't even hinted at offline backups and all kinds of other things.
That sounds deliberately dense. Understand what marginal cost is. A megabyte of storage used to cost $1000. Today it costs $400 / 1,000,000.
To store a photo is not a penny. Its some percents of a penny. You wouldn't bend over to pick it up on the street.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#35I wrote about the same thing this is a classic bait and switch
However their free storage plan is still very generous when compared to apple and Dropbox also they storage plans are very reasonably priced as well
https://www.tecowly.com/2020/11/12/google-photos-to-stop-giv...
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#36I honestly can't see the outrage here. Sure, they've closed their free tier, but they keep up the promise for Pixel owners and do not count images previously uploaded. That's really more than one can ask for in something they get for free.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#37In fact I didn't knew until the news yesterday. Now I'm going to get hooked - upload all my pictures (landscape-only, people pictures stay offline) before the end of the free offer. AFAIK what you have already uploaded stays there and doesn't count when the offer changes.
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#38time to do some cleanup. surely the auto-sync / auto-backup in Google Photos app has uploaded a shiploaded of photos not needed. also check gmail & drive for large attachments/files and see if they can be deleted . time-consuming, yes .
From what I understand, the photos uploaded up to that time will not count toward the used space even after that. So only newly uploaded photos will start counting toward the usage.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
The network was hardly the culprit in my explanation. How much is the cost of 4TB of georeplicated storage do you think? Surely you have to at least pay for the storage itself? So like $300-$400 at least if it's replicated 3-4x? And I haven't even hinted at offline backups and all kinds of other things.
That sounds deliberately dense. Understand what marginal cost is. A megabyte of storage used to cost $1000. Today it costs $400 / 1,000,000. To store a photo is not a penny. Its some percents of a penny. You wouldn't bend over to pick it up on the street.
> To store a photo is not a penny. Its some percents of a penny. You wouldn't bend over to pick it up on the street.
You're storing 1 photo (like 3MB)?? Or like thousands/millions?
Give me an estimate for how much you think 4TB of replicated storage costs if you think I overestimated?