To be honest, this whole affair is exactly how I'd expect it to be by default.
Amazon since way back when offered send-to-Kindle with archiving and cross-device sync.
Then out came their homegrown Cloud Storage lets-compete-with-dropbox-box-onedrive-gdrive-and-umpteeen-others offering. Like most, they offered freemium storage models. In this case, 5GB.
They combined PDOCs with Cloud Storage to make things simpler
Now they decided they are no longer interested in offering free starter storage, because honestly it doesn't stand out all that much anymore
... but that doesn't in and of itself mean they wish to destroy the PDOC service.
Granted, every single person here who insisted the sky is falling is
totally right, that
anything can happen. But that concern has been answered most elegantly:
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Originally Posted by murg
And Amazon could decide to charge US$100 per gigabyte per month, at some point in the future.
You have no point.
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What instead happened? Amazon re-evaluated what their Could Storage was about, decided it was no longer compatible with the PDOC service... and unbundled them again.