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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by prof_hobart on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:11AM (#9270175)
If you need to put a limit, then don't claim it's unlimited. The problem is with the marketing, not the cap itself.
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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by pyre on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:53AM (#9270512)
How do you market a variable cap where the actual value of the cap is a moving target depending on the circumstances?
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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by vidarh on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:23PM (#9270799)
That should not be our problem. If they find that difficult to communicate without lying (by calling it "unlimited"), perhaps they should set a non-variable cap.
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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by prof_hobart on Friday March 27, 2015 @05:20AM (#9275303)
That's something they are already presumably doing (it's what "fair usage" equates to), and isn't the problem.

The problem is making the marketing claim that this is "unlimited" when it's not. Call it "almost unlimited" or something similar and you're fine.

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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by Lawtonfogle on Thursday March 26, 2015 @04:15PM (#9272757)
Market it based on the rules by which it moves.
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