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I'm wary of Google products, because they seem to go through radical changes or get killed off pretty regularly.

EDIT: same with iCloud (or MobileMe or whatever it was before that)

Just because Dropbox uses S3 right now doesn't mean they always will. If S3 goes down, Dropbox will probably just use something else.
Seeing as I haven't heard of it, it doesn't seem to meet my criteria of being popular enough to be likely to be around in 50 years.

EDIT: It's Glacier I haven't heard of, not Amazon.

Long-time OS X user here. I bought my wife a Surface Pro 3 recently. We both love it. The pen is beyond excellent. The touch-screen works as well as Apple's own touchpad. The new start screen works as a fine replacement for Dashboard. Installing CygWin lets me use all the linux tools I want. I'm sure the new start menu and continuity stuff in Windows 10 will be just as good as with Apple, if not better. Sublime Text works fine on Windows, my son uses it all the time with CygWin. Haven't had any driver issues, granted we're only using the built-in hardware. I even installed Emacs and it works just as well as on my Mac.

Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend for the long term?

[EDITED]I have about 1TB of files right now, and I expect that to grow by 0.5TB every year.My goal is to* use a service for the next 50 years* lose none of my files* be able to add to my files every day* be able to access any of my files any timeWhich service would you recommend?The ones I know of: [Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, iCloud, S3]I'm not really tied to a platform. I have...

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