Re:Steve Jobs vowed to ‘kill’ Dropbox with iCloud
by rodgerd on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:14AM
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Why do you think either of them want you as a customer? You clearly don't plan on giving them any money.
Re:Steve Jobs vowed to ‘kill’ Dropbox with iCloud
by mathrawka on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:11AM
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Flickr is not a backup service.
They can and have lost photos in the past. A friend who used to be a PM at Yahoo! lost some family photos that he didn't have backed up... so he was able to contact them personally, but I am not sure how it ended.
I use Flickr as my main storage site, but I have a custom script that backsup photos and some meta-data to my local NAS.
Re:Steve Jobs vowed to ‘kill’ Dropbox with iCloud
by zaqokm on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:46AM
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> 5 gigs for free with dropbox and icloud isn't enough.
I see this as a loss leader for dropbox, they offer you 5 gig for free and then try to convert you to paid services. The internet isn't free you know, companies need to make money :)
Re:Steve Jobs vowed to ‘kill’ Dropbox with iCloud
by paulhauggis on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:47AM
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really? 5 gigs isn't even close to the amount I need. I'm already hitting my 100GB limit..and will probably buy some more space in the next couple of months.
I'm waiting for both companies to up their free storage offering, as Flickr now offers 1 terabyte to back up your photos and videos.