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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Relying on cloud-based subscriptions to get your stuff done nets you this:
https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/02/adobe...ud-price-hike/
This is the main reason I'll never ever pay for any cloud product.
The only reason cloud-based applications are so popular with companies is that having a team of in-house engineers to maintain said applications on-premise is even more expensive.
For consumers, I don't see the point in using cloud-based services for any regularly recurring stuff. You pay and pay, and as soon as you stop paying, the service stops and you're stranded.
I know people who had big music collections. Some gave every CD they had away, because of Spotify. Now they pay €10 a month, over and over, to listen to music, over and over that they owned before. I stashed my CD's in a rack in the attic, after I ripped them to my hard drive as FLAC files, and I listen to music for free.
The only cloud-based service I'd consider would be Netflix, because I don't watch the same movies over and over again. |
It's fine if you don't want to pay for syncing your stuff. Nobody's forcing you. I, on the other hand, am perfectly willing to pay the current price for the speed and convenience. And why should I ever be stranded? If I don't want to pay anymore, I can stop any time or switch the providers. Naturally Dropbox isn't the only place I keep my stuff. I don't understand why people constantly assume that all Dropbox users rely
only on Dropbox. We don't.