Tech’s broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

  • IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It starts out as $1.99 but everyone forgets that as life goes on they take more pictures and videos and have to keep upgrading cloud sevices to keep their memories intact.

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      1 year ago

      Google provides a feature to compress the photos, it’s reeeally difficult to see a difference from the original. That saves a lot of space. It’s a good practice to delete blurry/repetitive pictures. With that, 100 GBs can last a long time.

      It’s a bigger problem with videos where higher bitrate/resolution make a difference and they consume a lot of storage.

    • eeeeyayyyy@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      keep their memories intact

      Most social media users are struggling to export their 500+GB of data. Too bad for their memories got owned by corporates.