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The chances of one of the hip companies going out of business is much, much higher for the average user than the chances of Amazon terminating their service. A
by _pmf_ 12y ago
The chances of one of the hip companies going out of business is much, much higher for the average user than the chances of Amazon terminating their service.
Amazon is not Google; I wouldn't put anything on Drive, given their history of product cancellations.
- kbenson 12y agoI'm not sure it's quite that simple. A smaller company doing this may go out of business, but Amazon may decide to stop for any number of simpler reasons, including but not limited to: - Deciding that this isn't a lucrative service - Deciding that it's had the desired effect on competition and served it's purpose - Releasing another service that they decide competes with this but is better
- pgodzin 12y agoNone of the cancellations have been of core services, which Drive definitely is.
- _pmf_ 12y ago> None of the cancellations have been of core services, which Drive definitely is. What prevents them from redefining a core service to a non-core service on the go?
- pgodzin 12y agoThe amount of users. All the shutdowns, like Reader, have been very niche markets with orders of magnitude fewer users that Drive
- msabalau 12y agoGiven that Amazon managed to "disappear" Orwell e-books that people bought from Amazon, before backpedaling, in the face of outrage and the overwhelming irony, I'm not certain I'd view them as an exemplary actor. Regardless, bunches of people offering free storage allows for a pleasing redundancy.