<story><title>Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that&apos;s changing</title><url>https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/2020/11/12/google-photos-hooked-users-with-free-unlimited-storage-now-thats-changing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>To be fair, Google&amp;#x27;s pricing on storage is more than reasonable. I pay £2.50&amp;#x2F;month for 200gb of storage which more than covers my lifetimes worth of photos so far (in full res with a fair few RAW photos in there too).&lt;p&gt;And they&amp;#x27;re not deleting any photos that users already uploaded. I think Google deserve all the criticism they get for shutting down services. But this one seems to have been handled quite well.</text></item><item><author>part1of2</author><text>&amp;gt; Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.”&lt;p&gt;Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait &amp;amp; switch, and I saythat with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elmo2you</author><text>&amp;gt; To be fair, Google&amp;#x27;s pricing on storage is more than reasonable&lt;p&gt;That probably depends, on whether you factor in the profit Google makes from mining your data. That should be subtracted from their operating costs and only then compared to what they charge for the storage. My guess is that they&amp;#x27;ll make quite a killing on the thing, as a whole.&lt;p&gt;Even besides the morally questionable aspects (of the data mining), considering their position and leverage they might very well be slapped with some anti-trust rulings in the future.&lt;p&gt;Unlikely to happen in the US, since the meaning of anti-trust there has been systematically eroded and limited to where it has become all but a complete farce (compared to its original meaning&amp;#x2F;intentions). However, that&amp;#x27;s what you get when large corporations can pump vast amounts of money into politics, as if they were a voting citizen. But there is still some hope in other places. Either way, it shouldn&amp;#x27;t take rocket science to see how Google has a tremendous (unfair) advantage over any competition in this regard (which is what anti-trust really is about; not just avoiding&amp;#x2F;regulating absolute monopolies).</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. Now that&apos;s changing</title><url>https://keyt.com/news/money-and-business/2020/11/12/google-photos-hooked-users-with-free-unlimited-storage-now-thats-changing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicoburns</author><text>To be fair, Google&amp;#x27;s pricing on storage is more than reasonable. I pay £2.50&amp;#x2F;month for 200gb of storage which more than covers my lifetimes worth of photos so far (in full res with a fair few RAW photos in there too).&lt;p&gt;And they&amp;#x27;re not deleting any photos that users already uploaded. I think Google deserve all the criticism they get for shutting down services. But this one seems to have been handled quite well.</text></item><item><author>part1of2</author><text>&amp;gt; Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.”&lt;p&gt;Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait &amp;amp; switch, and I saythat with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfortuny</author><text>Well it is like an infinite order of magnitude of a difference when PROMISED otherwise.</text></comment>