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Originally Posted by HarryT
You say that cloud storage "should be" a one-time payment, but can you explain the economics of how you see that working, please?
Cloud storage is a service, not a product, and the service provider has an ongoing cost to maintain the network infrastructure, the servers, backups, support personnel, etc. Let's suppose you're 18 years old and you buy a certain amount of cloud storage for a one-time fee. How should that service be priced to allow for the fact that you could conceivably want to access it for the next 70 years, with ongoing costs for the provider that whole time? To suggest that this could be done for 4x the price of a hard disk is wildly optimistic, to my mind.
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70 years???
in 5-10 years it'll be free
in 10-20 years there wont be any demand for
this service just like there is no demand for tapes.
(ever wonder why Windows is a one time payment, they offer lifetime support - shouldn't it add up? No. how many people have Windows 98?!)