Confirmed: Motorola Mobility Acquires Cloud Storage Startup Zecter

I don't get the economics of these services; I know that it costs money to host data - build tech blah blah blah - but I just dont see having 500GB of storage available as being worth $80/month.

What I would love is a free-cloud-services aggregation service to which I could have one account that grabs the free offerings from multiple providers and gives me one interface to them.

I love these services, I, personally, just think there is something off with the pricing.

Re: Confirmed: Motorola Mobility Acquires Cloud Storage Startup Zecter

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Post by vidar » Thu, Dec 23, 2010, 10:02 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #3

vidar wrote: post #2

Surely YC must comment on this torrent of acquisitions.

Uh, why?

OK "must" is maybe too strong a word. My thinking was that since they try to be transparent in the way the company is set up, they would clarify if there was a reason behind this or whether it was incidental.

Re: Confirmed: Motorola Mobility Acquires Cloud Storage Startup Zecter

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Post by tptacek » Thu, Dec 23, 2010, 3:46 PM UTC

vidar wrote: post #5

tptacek wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh, why?

OK "must" is maybe too strong a word. My thinking was that since they try to be transparent in the way the company is set up, they would clarify if there was a reason behind this or whether it was incidental.

YC isn't about company transparency.