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
#2Thanks for giving us all the machine learning data. We no longer need your services.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#3Charging 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.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#4Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1150/
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#5> 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
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#6Charging 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.
>Charging for storage is becoming silly. Its essentially free. Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it, and at an ever-spiraling decreasing price.
And yet I can't find a cheap host for 2-4TB that's not like $10/month or so... even with Glacier it's $16/4TB/month...
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#7Thanks for giving us all the machine learning data. We no longer need your services.
I would contend that the people who do pay for Google Photos are now potential customers of lots of the other apps, and hence can be advertised to as such.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#8Thanks 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.
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#9Discussion from a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060973
Re: Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that's changing
#10Charging 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.
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