On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 10:18:01 -0800, The Real Bev wrote:
I put photos that I want to share on google photos, previously the
Picasa website which I liked a lot better. I put files that I want to
share that are too big to go in email on dropbox. Anything else seems
like way too much trouble as well as having the who-do-you-trust? problem.
Hi The Real Bev,
You and I go way back where I thank you for helping me understand your use
of the cloud that you just posted, which seems reasonable, and which makes
complete sense to use the cloud for things too big for email that you wish
to share with others who are far away.
For example, pointing people to your photos that are too large to email
seems to be a perfect use of the cloud, where the main problem is that you
want to use the "free" cloud as much as possible (knowing you and me), so
it's likely only 'temporary' photos are what you use the cloud for.
What I deplore is that forever renting my own data back from the cloud
providers seems like their marketing plan, which is why I never use more
than the allocated amount (which I think is 15GB for Google & something
like a puny 5GB plus some tricks to get more for free from Apple's iCloud).
o *Why do the big marketing organizations offer free cloud storage anyway?*
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.mobile.android/T8jyHNmCHoo/_QgyHUn_AwAJ
The good news, I think, with Google Fi anyway, is Google adds Google One
when you have Google Fi, which I got in order to get $200 off on what
turned out to be a $100 Moto G7. https://fi.google.com/about/
By getting Google Fi (on a handful of phones which I gave as stocking
stuffers), I ended up getting 100GB of Google One storage for each Motorola
G7 I gave away as a gift, so now I have _tons_ of unused cloud storage!
I'm happy with T-Mobile where, unfortunately, the US Moto G7 only has one
available SIM card slot, so I can only use one cellular service at a time.
[*I wonder if we can cut out that second slot & get two SIMs working?*]
https://i.postimg.cc/CxjDygsz/motog704.jpg
BTW, I think it's interesting that nospam always compares the worst phones
by price to performance to his beloved iPhones, where this new $100 Moto G7
(with 64GB of storage and 4GB of RAM for 8 CPU cores) is about the price of
the California sales tax on his comparison phones, which don't even have
the hardware nor anywhere near the modern app functionality of this $100
Moto G7 phablet which replaced my previous $130 LG Stylo 3 Plus that I
bought at Costco on Christmas eve two years ago:
https://i.postimg.cc/136096sR/motog700.jpg
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BTW, all my iOS & Android devices are organized just like my Windows 10
desktop is (i.e., by functionality):
https://i.postimg.cc/MTX4gRKW/motog705.jpg