• Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    1 month ago

    It’s nice to have the option, but I feel like 20GB doesn’t really do much. Especially if it’s for storing photos.

    It could be nice if they could set a $/GB price, so I could customise the amount of storage instead.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It’s for people who need more than 5GB but not 200GB. People in the developing world, or lower income brackets, who can’t afford 5-10 USD a month, or people who transfer photos offline instead of keeping their entire camera roll in the cloud.

    • finestnothing@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      They open sourced it, so it’s just a matter of time now. Linux is still a relatively small amount of their business though so they probably aren’t going to make it a priority in-house unfortunately. As a Linux user, I’m well aware that we’re still a vocal minority of users

  • MNLFNUT8YG@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Makes no sense a subscription for 20GB / 0,99 a month. You better take a iCloud 50GB subscription for 0,99 a month and use Cryptomator to store your files on iCloud. This is how I do it. Even store Carbon Copy backups (through Cryptomator) this way.

  • Great Blue Heron@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    I’m still on google for email and a bit of drive, calendar etc. I’ve been reading stuff about Proton with some interest as I’d like to ditch google. This doesn’t encourage me - what’s the point of a mobile only plan? Isn’t half the point of a cloud drive to allow sharing with other platforms? I’m just thinking aloud here - I could go read their offerings where I’d probably find that it’s their lowest entry level tier and they have less restrictive plans with clients for various platforms?

    • GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 month ago

      what’s the point of a mobile only plan?

      The plan can only be bought on mobile(through playstore and app store).

      Files are going to be accessible on all platforms.