Google or apple can put a big button delete everything in their phones/accounts but then some prankster will do it to a family member and this gives bad PR. Let's be pragmatic.
> It's in their interest to retain everything at all costs, because more used storage can mean more profits.
As an user, I get the reverse. When I had local NAS then I dumped anything and everything - assuming.. this costs not much. Will clean up later. Once I moved to cloud that changed to If I put crap then it will cost me money! Keep it clean
Once upon a time Google had given generous unlimited to all education and workspace. They stopped it in the last 2 years and you can see most educational and companies are running a tight ship.
Due to backup costs in our organisation we are forcing people to use max of 100GB for emails.
> advanced filesystems don't include "expiration dates" or "purge dates" on file objects. Wouldn't it be logical, if an organization
Totally agree.
Outlook email service has some kind of keep only the last newsletter from this service etc.
> auto-delete could be configurable account-wide, for more than just our web histories
- features are designed with majority in mind - most users have some sort of nostalgia for reading or keeping old emails SMS etc