In May, Google unveiled Google One, a replacement for its Drive cloud storage service. There’s a free 15GB tier – enough room for about 5,000 photos, depending on the resolution. Then it costs US$1.99 (RM8.30) a month for 100GB and up from there. This includes several types of files previously stashed in Google Drive, plus Gmail emails and photos and videos. The company ended its Chromebook two-year 100GB free storage offer around the same time, while the Pixel free photo storage deal ended in October with the release of the Pixel 4.

Gmail, Drive and Google Photos have more than 1 billion users each. As the company whittles away free storage offers and prompts more people to pay, that creates a potentially huge new revenue stream for the company. If 10% of Gmail users sign up for the new US$1.99 (RM8.30) a month Google One subscription, that would generate almost US$2.4bil (RM10.05bil) a year in annual, recurring sales for the company.

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Abuden?

Google is charity body is it?

About time liao loh I would say.
Free meal for so long already.

Thats the problem when one lived too long with tongkat, complain when no more tongkat.

I've been using drive 100gb since 2 years ago, after Dropbox dropped their 1TB free space

Don't mind paying, google has made my life so much more organised and synchronised

This post has been edited by EatFriesEggs: Oct 23 2019, 02:25 AM

oy vey goyim cough up your money so that we can store more of your junk data

surely all that selfies are worth paying for right?

more people on the net more money to be fleeced upon

claasic mercantile tactics I wonder what kind of innovation of expandng their ever growing business next because the only way sustainable way of late capitalism is to gorge in its path to ensure their survival

how exciting what kind of future may lie for us next

"I was merrily using the account and one day I noticed I hadn’t received any email since the day before,” said Rod Adams, a nuclear energy analyst and retired naval officer. After using Gmail since 2006, he’d finally hit his 15GB cap and Google had cut him off. Switching away from Gmail wasn’t an easy option because many of his social and business contacts reach him that way.

"I just said ‘OK, been free for a long time, now I’m paying’,” Adams said.

Other Gmail users aren’t so happy about the changes. "I am unreasonably sad about using almost all of my free google storage. Felt infinite. Please don’t make me pay! I need U gmail googledocs!,” one person tweeted in September.

Some people have tweeted panicked messages to Google in recent months as warnings about their storage limits hit.

One self-described tech enthusiast said he’s opened multiple Gmail accounts to avoid bumping up on Google’s storage limits.

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Smartphones dramatically increased the number of photos people take – one estimate put the total for 2017 at 1.2 trillion. Those images quickly fill up storage space on handsets, so tech companies, including Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Google, offered cloud storage as an alternative. Now those online memories are piling up, some of these companies are charging users to keep them.

Apple has been doing this for several years, building its iCloud storage service into a lucrative recurring revenue stream. When iPhone users get notifications that their devices are full and they should either delete photos and other files or pay more for cloud storage, people often choose the cloud option.

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RM8/mo also complain.

Meanwhile queue up to buy boba tea/starbucks/mekdi everyday.

say that to every service then what do you left with?

two wrongs doesn't make it right too much subscription these days the sweet spot of convenience has gone now

they went full greed mode already

u expecting charity till end of the world isit ?
u wont die deleting some of your junk

who tf keep 15gb of emails / pictures and save em to cloud ?

100gb not enough. Need 100gb x 5.
RM8 x 5 = RM40 per month.

yeah if only everyone think like you do if that's the case we wouldn't be at this stage now innit?

what is the use of Drive then?

everything also want free. i don't see anyone asking for free house, car etc.

this kind of thing shud not be taken for granted
its their mess to clear anyway

what use of the drive ?
save what "REALLY" important
do u know how much doc u can save with 15gb ?

You mean Google should provide free cloud storage forever?

RM43/mo can get 2TB on Google One.

This post has been edited by dares: Oct 23 2019, 03:31 AM

uh, guys.......

if you want unlimited (we're talking exabytes and more), go sign up for gsuite business. about USD12 per month.

thank me later k.

Still free for 15GB.