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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by johncena33 on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:20AM (#25081850)
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.
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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by blantonl on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:47AM (#25082051)
Try running a content platform with an API.

I've never comes across so many developers who feel like they are entitled to unlimited API access for free so they can build businesses on top of your platform.

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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by fernandotakai on Friday November 13, 2020 @08:40AM (#25081983)
i mean, paying for google photos storage is not even that expensive. it's $10 for 2TB, which i happily pay every month because it means i don't have to worry about photos backups.
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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by bluntfang on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:20AM (#25082373)
Yeah man, when someone says "i'll give you $5 ever day for life" and then in 5 years they say "i'm not going to do that anymore starting tomorrow" and being upset about that is such entitled behavior.
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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by mmmmmbop on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:42AM (#25082638)
The correct analogy would be "you can ask me for $5 as often as you want, I will give it to you for free, and you can keep it for life" and then 5 years down the road they say "starting 7 months from now, I'll stop giving you $5 when you ask me for it, but obviously you can still keep all the money I gave you".

I feel like people misconstrue "you can upload your photos and (store them for free for life)" to "you can (upload your photos and (store them for free for life) for life)".

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