alt Hacker NewsOften, I see 50 people all recording the same exact thing on their iphones. Rather than a single 200MB video, we create 10GB of data. Then I think about how many people are paying a subscription to Apple for icloud storage.
The amount of photo storage being used is impressive. Automatic backup to icloud and server provisioning to reliably store it all is also impressive. I just wonder if it makes sense.
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xyzsparetimexyz • today at 9:21 PM
Instead of 5 people buying 5 copies of a t shirt that they only wear once a week, why don't they just buy 1 copy and share it?
Gee101 • today at 7:14 PM
Is that not how Cloud storage vendors make money? They dedup all that data but still charge every individual for all their data.
Very little about modern technology "makes sense" in the way you mean. But it does currently make money.