Yes. You’re paying for the storage space and access to it…I think “* as a service” is anti-consumer but I really don’t understand how anyone could think they’re entitled to keep using a service after they stop paying for it.
You are abandoning your files if you don’t download them before your subscription ends. Providers aren’t stealing it and holding it hostage…
And they don’t make it clear that they WILL remove the local files without notification. While making it seem like the files are still local.
It’s at best deception, but really feels like extortion.
So if someone is paid to help you load your groceries, and then because you don’t tip them, that means they’re allowed to take the groceries that they loaded back into the store?
False equivalence. You are not “tipping” cloud providers, you are paying them to perform a service.
Let’s try a modified analogy and put you in the scenario…
You digitize cassettes for a living. Someone across the country sends you one and asks you to convert it to an MP3. You received the tape and digitize it …but they refuse to send the money.
Are you allowed to not send the files? Are you allowed to not send the tape back? The answer to both is yes.
Not a false equivalence at all. People before you created this platform, you paid for said platform (let’s say windows. You purchase a prebuilt pc, so the operating system and access to the services are paid for at initial purchase (key point). THEN Microsoft says "Hey this service is involved. Check it out. We’ll store what you need. Download and register here… Sweet! It’s setup you got your files uploaded… Now pay me and I’m not letting you see or use the files without paying me.
That isn’t even remotely close to the same situation. Most people have never actually paid for OneDrive,they use the free version and then this happens when it expires. And if you do pay, then decide to cancel, that isn’t “not tipping” them, it’s… not paying for the service anymore.
If you load all of your groceries into someone’s car, and tell them you’ll pay to have them delivered, and you never do, they certainly can leave with your groceries.
What exactly can cause the free version of OneDrive to “expire”? A subscription for more storage can end when you stop paying, but I don’t know what you’re referring to.
Isn’t it the same with all cloud files?
Yes. You’re paying for the storage space and access to it…I think “* as a service” is anti-consumer but I really don’t understand how anyone could think they’re entitled to keep using a service after they stop paying for it.
You are abandoning your files if you don’t download them before your subscription ends. Providers aren’t stealing it and holding it hostage…
And they don’t make it clear that they WILL remove the local files without notification. While making it seem like the files are still local. It’s at best deception, but really feels like extortion.
The shortcuts to the unsynced files might get removed when you cancel but local files don’t
So if someone is paid to help you load your groceries, and then because you don’t tip them, that means they’re allowed to take the groceries that they loaded back into the store?
False equivalence. You are not “tipping” cloud providers, you are paying them to perform a service.
Let’s try a modified analogy and put you in the scenario…
You digitize cassettes for a living. Someone across the country sends you one and asks you to convert it to an MP3. You received the tape and digitize it …but they refuse to send the money.
Are you allowed to not send the files? Are you allowed to not send the tape back? The answer to both is yes.
Not a false equivalence at all. People before you created this platform, you paid for said platform (let’s say windows. You purchase a prebuilt pc, so the operating system and access to the services are paid for at initial purchase (key point). THEN Microsoft says "Hey this service is involved. Check it out. We’ll store what you need. Download and register here… Sweet! It’s setup you got your files uploaded… Now pay me and I’m not letting you see or use the files without paying me.
How is that business model justified?
Hey, thanks for the free sample you sent! I’ll order a box!
Wait…If I want cookies every month, I have to pay every month?
That isn’t even remotely close to the same situation. Most people have never actually paid for OneDrive,they use the free version and then this happens when it expires. And if you do pay, then decide to cancel, that isn’t “not tipping” them, it’s… not paying for the service anymore.
If you load all of your groceries into someone’s car, and tell them you’ll pay to have them delivered, and you never do, they certainly can leave with your groceries.
What exactly can cause the free version of OneDrive to “expire”? A subscription for more storage can end when you stop paying, but I don’t know what you’re referring to.
Yeah. Not a good comparison