What makes this worse is they've been offering a discounted price this past week for their apps. Seems wrong to take money from new users days before your about to stop development.
just throwing this out there, the silk browser takes advantage of caching content. when you have only a dozen reviewers using it is not really indicative of how it will preform with a million users using it
there should be a variable option where you can trade users for storage. i.e. i want 10 users sharing 500gb, or 20 users sharing 250 gb.
Dropbox for teams never attracted me not because of the storage size, rather it was the high price to add users.
someone should get a comment from AA HQ whether it is indeed corporate policy to block twitter during an emergency landing. Other possibilities may be that this is a GOGO policy, or there was just an issue connecting to twitter.
Hulu is a well designed and great product. That said, hulu's value is its content not its backend and community. The only reason to buy hulu would be if it came with streaming rights that were more valuable than the purchasing price.
title is misleading, it doesn't say that GROUPON raised the price, it just said prices of offers on groupon occasionally did not reflect the cost quoted by the establishment. The fault most likely lies with the business owner.
So really what would make everyone is a type of Selective_Sync, i.e. there are three file types.
those that are ephemeral and can be deleted.
those that are ephemeral but should only deleted if given permission
And those that need to be backed up.
It looks like the blog is getting hammered right now. But 3 notes:
1)the limit of 100 mb per file is a weak way of limiting the promotion.
2)a lot of people are gonna be pissed of that you don't get it unless you install and create your account after midnight.
3)finally this is a shot across the bow of dropbox. 50gb for life for free is a big deal even with the file size crippling.
its an interesting article. Might be a little redundant for people that read hacker news. That said if it gets non techies to seriously consider password diversification and a backup strategy, kudos.
i disagree, free texting apps do not hurt carrier profits for 2 reasons.
a) Users don't want another phone number, and even if they agreed, getting your friends to text you using that number instead of you carrier number is a large burden.
b)texts are priced so that even if you are able to use apps to cut down your texting, you don't save any money.
for example: a text costs 20 cents. verizon has a plan for 5 dollars a month for 250 texts. if after using apps you are able to get your incidental texts down to 25, you break even. Anymore and you loose money.
ATT is worse by forcing you into unlimited plans.
Which is why carriers are not afraid of iMessage. As long as users have a few incidental texts they'll still buy plans to prevent bill shock.
update:they mention point 2 at the end of the article but don't view it as damning as i do.
as a chromebook user, i find this article disappointing. what it really summed up to was flash is not working well -> chrome os is doomed, instead of maybe chromebooks need a hardware boost. By that theory iphones/ipads are worse because flash doesn't work at all.
I will also say that i have found flash to be working better on the device as the upgrades have progressed.
The biggest flaw with chrome os has been google not educating users on new features as they come out. for instance the average user has no idea that they can open apps in panels.
to be fair the original pricing for app engine was for a google product that was in early beta. Google Docs has been out of beta for a long time, and their storage prices have decreased since they were first released. In addition they have removed file type limitations, and increased max file size to 10gb. It is be beyond unlikely that they would regress and increase prices.
i for one am tired of the hourly model. set a price whatever it may be. If you go low, you'll charge more the next time. if you go high, people will go to someone else.
dont forget parallel is much larger than cuda, gpu's just happen to be largely parallelizable chips. If your really basic, play around with java and get a feeling for threads and synchronous, maybe write a map/reduce program or 2 and run it on aws.
you are right, my bad i missed that. Even so, my original comment is still relevant when you look at how google eventually realized their own product wouldn't catch up to a startup's, and bought them out.
in the dropbox forums company representatives constantly comment that lower price plans are not feasible. That said, I've always been disappointed by companies that make you buy buckets of units (like postpaid cellphone plans) that they know you will never use rather than offering a per unit price. If the cost to provide 1gb of storage per month is higher than 10/50, than charge the higher price, don't hide it by shifting the cost of power users onto regular users.