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Well it is like an infinite order of magnitude of a difference when PROMISED otherwise.
For most people, 15GB can very well be a lifetime.
Not even close with social media, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc.
Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
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#42> 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
They probably meant the lifetime of the google service.
So anywhere from 15 minutes to two years.
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#43Thanks for giving us all the machine learning data. We no longer need your services.
But users also benefit from it. You can search for the contents of the images in your private gallery.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#44Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.
Maybe close to free on a per bit basis but I guess electricity, bandwidth, redundancy etc aren't. Photos is one of the products I'm actually happy to pay for extra storage. €100 buys my 2TB of storage that I can share with my wife and my kids when they are old enough. Knowing that any pic I snap is backed up is worth the cost, photographs are one of the few things that are truly irreplaceable. Saying that based on ad…
Yeah they're nearly free too. For a photo, some invisible fraction of a penny per year.
We're being marketed storage by features, not by the cost of the thing. And in an efficient market in a sane world, that should drop to nearly free.
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#45Thanks for giving us all the machine learning data. We no longer need your services.
it sucks but.. yeah, that's how it works. And that is enabled by VC funded culture, where you have million of dollars invested in companies, which can then offer services at a loss investing in something else (market share, training data, etc.). Using smaller companies which charge honestly for the services they provide is probably more sustainable in the long term.
In this case though, a smaller company might not be around forever. When you’re looking at storing important photos, the service you think will last longest may be best.
(I use Flickr, Gphotos and an S3 bucket but I’m paranoid)
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#46Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.
The price of storage is the price of maintenance not of storing.
Which, since its largely automated, is also essentially free.
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KS-3 Server - Atom N2800 - 4GB DDR3 1066 MHz - 2TB SATA $9.99/month https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/order/kimsufi.xml?reference=18... No RAID, but it's in your desired price range.
Yep, it's possible with a dedicated or vps with 4TB or more, but this doesn't suit my use case (backup). I want the storage replicated geo-redunduntly backed-up and safer, Glacier/Backblaze/etc-style, not just lost whenever someone breaks into the server or there's a hardware issue at the hosting company, etc. Basically "upload and forget"... Same way, I can't find any good Squarespace/Ghost/Wordpress.com style servi…
Maybe https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/#three-info ?
Supposedly $5.99/TB/Month
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#48Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price. It'd be like charging for windows-up or windows-down on a taxi ride.
Those data centres just build themselves, right?
One data center for 1B people? Yes, per person.
Folks, try to understand marginal cost. Its a tiny number per person now, and plummeting.
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Well it is like an infinite order of magnitude of a difference when PROMISED otherwise.
For most people, 15GB can very well be a lifetime.
This does not sound true at all. Everyone has a camera and most everyone takes a lot of photos. A large number of people take videos too. I would be shocked if the median smartphone user didn’t take at least 5 GB of photo/video every year.