Even so...storage is not free.
Looking at the rates of enterprise storage costs compared to what Google or Apple charges consumers - I was surprised by how subsidized people's photo libraries are.
Looking at the rates of enterprise storage costs compared to what Google or Apple charges consumers - I was surprised by how subsidized people's photo libraries are.
Google also charges a flat rate for 2TB with the next lowest plan being 200GB. So the majority of users are paying for 2TB but not using anything close to that much. I suspect consumer storage is also much easier to offload to hard drives and tape backups while files on S3/B2 would mostly require SSDs with some probably being stored in ram.