LogMeIn to discontinue free remote access product

Re:LogMeIn to discontinue free remote access product by chesh on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @10:22AM (#7095741)

Why would I believe that any of LogMein's other services like join.me or Cubby will remain free. Join.me is no problem because there is no switching cost. However I would never entrust my files to Cubby because of the risk they pull a fast one like they are doing with LogMein remote access.

They really should have thought this through and figured a way to allow low intensity users (I use it maybe once a quarter) to continue for free.

If you do want to depend on free services be ready to switch easily, or check to make sure that the vendor offers free-for-life.

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Re:LogMeIn to discontinue free remote access product by JohnTHaller on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @12:06PM (#7096567)

Any offering from any company can easily disappear without notice (except for contracts but even then bankruptcy, hacking events, natural disasters, etc). An offering disappearing without warning is much more likely in case of a free product. Any vendor's 'free for life' offering is likely just marketing material and won't be free for life (change of contract, company merger/buyout, bankruptcy, etc).

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Re:LogMeIn to discontinue free remote access product by tunap on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @11:44AM (#7096377)

While I am really frustrated with this 7 day notice, I do feel the need to plug the Cubby paid service. I keep 0 bits in the cloud, but the accompanying Direct Sync service that comes with Pro is very useful...in fact, anyone know of any other direct sync services, sans cloud storage, that work well?

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Re:LogMeIn to discontinue free remote access product by carlozt03 on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:24PM (#7097606)

BittorentSync is very handy. http://www.bittorrent.com/sync

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Re:LogMeIn to discontinue free remote access product by tunap on Thursday January 23, 2014 @11:37PM (#7113355)

Even better. Thanks for the tip.

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Re:LogMeIn to discontinue free remote access product by bluedino on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @10:31AM (#7095821)

join.me works great if you have someone at the machine and they can start the session. But LogMeIn was something you could leave running on a machine and come back and access it later. You could have your whole family in there on your account and remote into any of them with one click when you get a tech support call from grandma.

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