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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by newobj on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:04PM (#9270625)
"I reserve the right to just crash and lose all your stuff."

-- Your hard drive

"Me too."

-- Your backup hard drive

"I also reserve the right to be stolen, dropped, burned up in a fire, or thrown out by your partner during a cleaning jag."

-- Your hard drives in general

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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by ploxiln on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:34PM (#9270910)
"We sold you unlimited. But if you go over the secret threshold, we'll delete your account." -- Amazon

This is why I hate "unlimited" in general. It's not unlimited, just tell me what the damn limit is.

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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by danudey on Thursday March 26, 2015 @01:30PM (#9271476)
The key to 'unlimited' services is that the rate at which most users accrue stored data is slower than the rate at which storage becomes cheaper.

That is to say, in the time it takes for your data to go from 1 GB to 10 GB, their cost-per-GB has gone down by >90%.

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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit... by rsync on Thursday March 26, 2015 @03:43PM (#9272523)
Unlimited services put the user in an antagonistic relationship with the provider:

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/11/flat-rate-stora...

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