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.

western digital needs profit too. about time for google to start helping hard drive makers.

This...
Unlimited storage yooo

More than 15gb memang have to pay since I dunno when

You people are just spoiled

Sounds 'suite' to me

Ok la RM8/month for 100GB.

Last time they can easily offer 100gb free as marketing gimmick because they know average user can only use so much.

Now 100gb usage on average user is totally on realm possibility. Imagine each of those 3.5inch HDD in their DC, typically 8TB - could only hold 80 users if everyone actually use their 100gb allocation. Now make it 3 x8gb HDD for let say, parity and backup. And now put the total gsuite users into the equation. And then you calculate all the energy costs to drive all those drives. Shit got ugly real fast.

people tend to think cloud storage is some kind technology magic that just dump your files into endless void. Not many of them stop to think that those data still has to go somewhere. And it is stored in none other than the very same hdd your have inside your PC.

Kan banyak dupe.10 dupes = 150gb.

yes I understand these points
maybe I was not articulate enough with my concern

why do they need to do this?

due to increasing demand of cloud storage directly proportional to the increase in number of users as increasing penetration of the web around the globe

thus they have to consider their cost of operations no doubt about that

why do you tolerate this? because from your point of view it's "still" cheap?

for me I just don't like being beholden to them because the mistakes of many who don't and won't learn anyway will affect us all

is this a fallacy?
am I just being self-important?

feels like being too reliant shackled by them and like there's no way out from it

inb4 you don't like you balik masuk hutan lol

Anyone using google suites?

just checked my google storage, 1GB of 15GB used.
No problem.

Btw you people don't delete junk email/junk picture/junk video and let them get uploaded to cloud?

This post has been edited by yushin: Oct 23 2019, 06:17 AM

84.99/year if go for yearly payment... Huhuhu...

Somemore can use hotlink credits to pay...

Put in their drive means whatever you put there belongs to them and they can use it?

Also I hated gmail for not able to filter or block emails.

News like this will only shock ‘I don’t pay parking’ shit mentality of Malaysians who then double or triple park like its their birthright.

Organised yourself. Get rid of the digital junks. 15Gb would be good enough. unless you're stashing red sofa thingy

Yeah been paying rm84.99 per year for some time now. May soon need to move up to the next tier.

No such thing as free lunch forever.

Me. Grandfathered from the old Google Apps Personal Edition package. Still free for now, with my own domain (usd10/yr) and about 10 user accounts for my family.

problem that it was not free meal before

google admitted in scanning our emails for targeted ads & training their AI on logging users writing styles

You can consider the free 15gb option. It's not like google has removed the free tier.

lucky my free storage is 19GB

kesian semua nak free

I can barely use up 1GB of cloud storage.

I'm at about 70gb now. Mostly due to Google photos and videos backup at full quality.

if the photos and vids you take
feature yr genitals, tits and anus
don't be making a big mistake
go offline storage, or u may become famous

I heard Dropbox charged u kaw kaw
Not even get 5gb free

Better upload photo via facebook.

Nothing wrong here. Why complain?

If you like the cloud service so much, then a bit la.

Don be cheapskate.

My icloud 50Gb only rm3.90/mth
I am thinking of upgrading to 100Gb rm7.90/mth

My office use 100gb also hit the limit as they not always clean up the unused file.....

Baidu offer 1TB for free how come no one mention?

i hardly use anything more than 1gig. So idc

You forgot to mention backup/ duplicate in a secondary DC location......

whats wrong with them charging?

u think google running charity?

Gaji staff siapa mau bayar kalau free

my unlimited google drive is free lol

what about existing photos

So far use 6GB, many with data that I can keep locally. I don't trust Google enough to keep photos and videos.

China Gov spy service included for free.

hv been subscribing their 100gb storage for a more than a year, mainly to backup crucial data such us some paperworks and photos.

I got 1.7tb on my gugudrive..

Foto n bideo

Using around 3TB on Google Drive, used to sync and backup most of my works across multiple devices. Can’t imagine living with 15GB free storage

Cannot even brain why need to pay for a service to store things that they(google) can and has been mining from

any other good options other than google cloud?

Easy.

Create 100 dupe emails.

Now you have 15gb * 100 = 1500 gb storage free.

I think this is overstating.

Who ask you upload your naked photos?

Have over 1tb pic+video.

I host my own cloud.

mmm, sounds awfully familiar with certain policies in malaysia.

Lul, someone here complain umobile RM30 per month kena throttle to slow speed after download 100GB. Wor

But for me 15GB I also tak habis guna. Pikture? Upload to HQ where unlimited space lor.

Macam US govtak spy u

currently used 2.3gb
mostly photo took up the space.
since my phone auto-sync the photo since last 2 years.
2 years= 1gb photo, guess i have about 20 years before i need to pay.

dem 10% can already revenue 2.4b usd

Time to utilize and optimize my multiple accounts I guess

i dont overuse storage

like apple. already seen tactic

Free and unlimited storage forever and ever...lol...btw i already pay for the 100gb storage a few years ago...

ayam still use yahoo mail and msn mail

i am one of "oldies"

i spring clean and delete stuffs that i dont need.

of course with the explosion of whatsapp and socmeds many more things clogup my phones and email, but i would still try to clear up as much as possible.

those relatives and frens' video photo that kep sharing around? none of my business i delete
those porn vids and photos? only kept those with quality, others delete
those viral news and stuffs being shared? delete delete delete

especially when the same things are shared on different groups, making multiples of everything. hampalang kasi clear.

cloud storage? yeah maybe some stuffs that i cant bear to lose if my phone goes bonkers. but those are very special stuffs that dont even amount to 5gb. plus, can always create a few more google accounts and get a few gb more free storage.

work around it brah

Naked pix is the last thing you would wanna worry about. Maybe you don't know that there are software that can IDENTIFY things in the background. Just like how you guys can identify that red sofa. How they wanna use the data is to the limits of their imagination. For now, the simple usage of this is to like those objects to your social media account and suggest ads based off them.

Now if you said some shit and they wanna hunt you, saves a lot of time using AI to identify things in your pictures and do a profile of you. From there it makes life easy for the hunter. Whether such apps exists or not is up to you. Why do you think deep fake is very interesting

This post has been edited by netmatrix: Oct 23 2019, 09:45 AM

u guys use so much space for what
1 acc of mine is unlimited storage (free ) also dunno wht to put ...
i hv 12 others gmail acc for gaming purpose..

Thks google! So far i paid 0 sen using youtube google gmail map android.... Willl be kept this way

you pay google and goole steal your data to sell .... instant profit

Wow what the fuck?

You do realize they been providing free email, free g-drive etc all these while?

If you don't like it, go pay microsoft to use microsoft office 365 la. Or use yahoo spammy email la.



Entitled like crazy la you people.

Private encrypted cloud? At least bots dont rummage thru ur barang when ur gonna pay for it.

last time i work wit a small company which uses gsuite biz.
that time is still in beta, just need few $ to register, then can create unlimited account.
google edi mentioned very clear in their t&c that u're actually willingly beta testing & will change to paid service once final product is launch.

the gsuite biz launch, require to pay subscription per account.
boss merajuk, say wanna host own mail server.
i told him, ur user not much, u think hosting own server no need licenses & maintenance fees?
not to mentioned worst performance due to processing power & bandwidth & a lot less reliable due to no plan to redundancy.
not to mentioned hav to giv up a lot of crucial google features company been using, especially maps.

Looks like more poor people going to the streets and protest soon. World is going down in flames.

#dontbeevil

cukur google baru

Still enjoying my security check-up bonus

u grow a plant, watch it bloom nicely, nurture it care for it,
then smoke it

tu concept business

Got option to pay one time use for entire life x? Hate mobthly subscriptions

no bark is given, gmail for playstore and other etc etc asking for email address only. Hotmail FTW!!!

still give 15GB free, i happy already.
why people complaining google charging premium for higher storage? google need money to pay their highly skilled monkey, electric, hardware,cdn etc.

Is this legit?

https://s.lazada.com.my/s.ZlHkF

Ah so that's why I see 119gb on my Google drive.

Use PCLOUD.COM

The lifetime subscription cost.

Lifetime is not your life, it's the life of the company, just remember that

Wah liddis i go back to my external hard drive only la and hope it doesn't fail over time

kesian. my google drive storage is unlimited

it will fail.

Buy entry lvl Synology NAS lor. Data safe as long as you don’t so bad luck until both disks fail at once. Or if your house kena broken into and the NAS stolen 😂