Dropbox flips Snapjoy album shut Heavy Snapjoy users will be watching any download limits they might have, with Dropbox changing its mind and shuttering the cloudy pic-storing app. Snapjoy, the self-described “smart photo library in the cloud”, allowed its users to aggregate their photos stored on other services including Flickr, Picasa, Facebook and Twitter …
Use the cloud and risk the loss.
Unless there are legal protections put in place you could lose your stuff in a blink of an eye without having any kind of appeal.
In this case they kindly give you a month to retrieve what you own data, but what if you have a lot of it stored in 'virtual security' ? Where do you put a years worth of photographs?
Some people see the word 'free or cheap storage' and then really abuse the system.
90% of the photographs are just stored snaps that over the course of a year or two are pretty much forgotten and not looked at or ever used.
These storage facilities then become dustbins and filled to over flowing with crap.
In the old days, the crap you'd accumulate, including photos that never developed properly were sorted and thrown out. However now some people think they need to store everything.
The Cloud providers can't keep adding and expanding their storage indefinitely, it's up to people using it to be sensible.
If they had to store it on their own hard drives they might be a bit moe discerning.
"The Cloud providers can't keep adding and expanding their storage indefinitely, it's up to people using it to be sensible."
Oh I don't know, BackBlaze, the online backup service which costs $5/month for unlimited storage seems to be doing pretty well, they're constantly increasing their storage through their custom designed pods, each of which contains up to 180TB through an array of 45 harddrives:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibrations-storage-pod-3-0/
Some people see the word 'free or cheap storage' and then really abuse the system.
If a free service offers me 5GB and I use all 5GB, that's not abuse. Stupidity possibly, if that 5GB is important stuff that isn't backed up elsewhere, but not abuse.
If they had to store it on their own hard drives they might be a bit moe discerning.
I doubt it. I have 1TB in my laptop plus a 2TB desktop drive. Both still full of crap.
The trouble is there's always demand inflation. The punter may only have enough crap to fill a 5gb cloudlet, but if someone offers us 10gb free we may opt to use them instead, and some people will then accumulate a further 5gb. And so on.
There are the ones who are frightened to throw anything away, in case they lose something they need: Even though they have no chance of either finding it or even remembering they've got it.
And there are the ones who don't even know their stuff is rubbish because they are convinced that their every tacky image, twit and sad comment needs to be preserved for posterity.
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