All good movies IMHO
A simpler and more centralized service is better, and Google usually get things right with regards to what to chop and what to not.
Google has dumped more products as it repositions its brand as a social network in a move to shift even more adverts. Mountain View said it will kill off a number of small-fry applications over the coming months, and Google bosses want "people to have a beautifully simple experience" when using the search giant's services. …
that quote from Google:-
If you’re paying for storage, your free storage will now be counted towards your total. So if you buy a 100GB plan, it will give you 100GB of total storage instead of adding to what you already had.
Isn't that a slightly politician way of saying "if you buy 100GB, you don't get any free storage. Also, fuck you"?
or am I reading it wrong?
I think you'll find that like taxes and copy right, trades description laws don't apply to Google.
This looks like a price hike, so I suspect I'll stop using Drive, and move my files to somebody whose business is backup. The impact is marginal, but the most important thing is the clear message from Google to paying cusotmers: "F*** off, peasants!"