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Going around to lots of stores burning fuel depriving regular consumers of inventory forcing them onto your cloud solution. It's classic SV screw-regular-folk-
by philipwhiuk 1y ago
Going around to lots of stores burning fuel depriving regular consumers of inventory forcing them onto your cloud solution.
It's classic SV screw-regular-folk-as-long-as-its-not-banned.
- fwipsy 1y agoDevil's advocate: Individual users probably aren't filling a 3tb hard drive most of the time. (This may not apply to HN users, but I imagine most people buy a hard drive larger than they need and never fill it up.) So arguably, Backblaze used the drives more efficiently, because each drive benefited many users and its entire capacity would be used.
- gwbas1c 1y agoThat's not appropriate. People buy those drives to do whatever the ^#$^#$ they want to do with them. Backblaze's service may or may not be an effective replacement for what people wanted the drives for.
- Unearned5161 1y agodoesn't Backblaze largely do backups? as in their customer's already have the files on their own large drives and they need to back those files up, as in maybe you're reading too much into this?
- mastax 1y agoI don't think it is immoral to purchase products from retail stores.