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“Unlimited”, until it is limited. Amazon already bait-and-switched on unlimited Amazon Cloud Drive storage. Microsoft, too, on OneDrive, before Amazon. Now Goog
by oefrha 6y ago
“Unlimited”, until it is limited. Amazon already bait-and-switched on unlimited Amazon Cloud Drive storage. Microsoft, too, on OneDrive, before Amazon. Now Google. What makes you believe Amazon will honor “unlimited” this time round?
- JorgeGT 6y agoOh, nothing. But until they do, why pay Google, if I already pay Prime?
- avisser 6y ago> What makes you believe Amazon will honor “unlimited” this time round? Because Amazon has an incentive to keep me as a Prime customer (I'll buy more crap on Amazon). Most people don't pay Google a single cent. So it's not that I trust Amazon, it's that the economic model for Amazon including unlimited storage in my Prime membership makes sense. (Note: I wouldn't bet on Amazon staying unlimited for the next 50 years, just providing the counter-argument.)
- oefrha 6y agoThey had an incentive to keep me as an Amazon Cloud Drive customer, too, until they decided they didn’t if I stored more than 1TB. So I canceled. In the case of Prime I doubt a non-negligible percentage of Prime customers would cancel over losing unlimited storage, so the incentive to keep it unlimited is even smaller.
- mrep 6y agoI wouldn't count on it considering they unbundled ad free twitch from prime 2 years ago [0]. [0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17761760/twitch-prime-turbo-ad-free-benefit-end-over-september-14 https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17761760/twitch-prime-tur...