How likely could GMail follow the same path ?
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
#82For 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.
Any idea if I can buy the family plan and use 6TB for myself?
I don't think you can use 6TB on a single account, you would probably need to create multiple accounts.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
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#84How likely could GMail follow the same path ?
It's only going to get more difficult to switch to another email provider as time passes, you should switch now.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If that was true they would not have made the change as the marketing value of "unlimited" would have more than paid for the few users that did exceed.
However they know, as with all data things, that people will continually expand their consumption, with more and more mobile devices making not only extremely hi res photos but now 4K video, the need for storage will only increase
This type of comment is on the same vein of "640K ought to be enough for anybody." or "we will never need more than 4,294,967,296 addresses"
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/#three-info ? Supposedly $5.99/TB/Month
Something like that functionality-wise, but it's still more than Glacier ($16 vs $22 for ~4TB).
No egress charges, so it's cheaper than Glacier for some use cases.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#87I 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 .
The internet is full of entitled people. I've never seen such entitled people in real life. Unfortunately lately HN is no different. I am also an avid user of Google Photos. From my perspective, they did keep their promise. They will store your photos for free before a certain timeline. Just because someone did a favor to you for some time, that doesn't mean you are entitled to their help forever.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#88> 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.
Almost. I'd say they meant, "the lifetime of this version of the terms of service of the Google service."
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I'm giving Amazon Photos a try, since they offer unlimited high quality storage with Prime. I will appreciate if someone shares their opinion about this service.
“Unlimited”, until it is limited. Amazon already bait-and-switched on unlimited Amazon Cloud Drive storage. Microsoft, too, on OneDrive, before Amazon. Now Google. What makes you believe Amazon will honor “unlimited” this time round?
> What makes you believe Amazon will honor “unlimited” this time round?
Because Amazon has an incentive to keep me as a Prime customer (I'll buy more crap on Amazon). Most people don't pay Google a single cent.
So it's not that I trust Amazon, it's that the economic model for Amazon including unlimited storage in my Prime membership makes sense.
(Note: I wouldn't bet on Amazon staying unlimited for the next 50 years, just providing the counter-argument.)
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#90If you have to start paying for photo storage, you may as well move them somewhere with better privacy.
I suppose. The usability of Google Photos is pretty awesome, though, I'd find it very difficult to switch. Both the Android app and the web app are maintained and work extremely well (imho, ymmv). Does video, too. Tight integration with Android devices and other Google products, fairly convenient sharing functionality, and almost everybody has a Google account. (This is what Microsoft devotees must have felt like in the early 00s...) And at this point I'm easily served by the lowest tier, 20 EUR for 100 GB.