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Why do people pay for things like Google Drive or Dropbox when S3 storage is so cheap?
by _lvbh 3y ago
Why do people pay for things like Google Drive or Dropbox when S3 storage is so cheap?
- oefrha 3y agoWhy use Dropbox when you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, back in 2007 even?
- Valgrim 3y agoI understand some of these words.
- chronogram 3y agoIt's a reference to the comments of the "Show HN" of Dropbox back in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- mlyle 3y agoBecause I can't store my gmail and Google Docs documents on S3, and because Google Photos is easier to use than cramming my stuff to S3.
- crazygringo 3y agoYup. It's not just that I use Docs, but I don't know what I'd do without Google Drive Search across all my documents. Same with searching photos using text search. Also Google Drive for Desktop. I'm sure there's an equivalent for S3 but I don't know if it works as well.