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Re:Box Refreshes Its iOS Apps, Gives Users Who Download Them... by teddyh on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:00PM (#7072121)
For a little over $200 I can get a 50GiB USB flash drive. If I can pay more and buy one five times as large, I can get below $1 per GiB. Why would I need cloud storage for these sizes?
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Re:Box Refreshes Its iOS Apps, Gives Users Who Download Them... by nixarn on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:05PM (#7072153)
Isn't this kinda missing the point? First of all this was free, but Box is like Dropbox, so it syncs files between computers and you can access them in your phone.
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Re:Box Refreshes Its iOS Apps, Gives Users Who Download Them... by teddyh on Friday January 17, 2014 @03:55AM (#7074909)
How can I not access a flash drive in my phone? It’s in my hand. I can just plug it in. If I want to access the files from a computer, I plug it into the computer.

That’s my point. “Cloud” storage is completely unnecessary for these storage sizes, as I can just carry my personal data with me.

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Re:Box Refreshes Its iOS Apps, Gives Users Who Download Them... by izzydata on Thursday January 16, 2014 @03:54PM (#7072488)
You can get a 256GB flash drive for $200. A 64GB is only about $40 these days.
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