ITYM “Amazon removed a false claim it used for advertising purposes and hoped no one would ever test.”
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“This is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film The Neverending Story”
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Perhaps they should have had a service for “Up to 100s of TB” instead of unlimited?
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Anchoring bias. I suspect if they had said that then a whole lot of people would have suddenly found 99TB of data they couldn’t live without.
OTOH, they probably figured this way data per user would rise more gradually without having to specify a current, ever changing limit.
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It is the case that companies really should stop using the term unlimited in marketing. That and they should just stop the one user from uploading a petabyte and not screw over everybody else. They should have guessed one yahoo was going to do something like this.
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I agree. While I think it was a neat thing for them to advertise an unlimited solution, they could have advertised the solution with a huge limit and still gotten customers. Alas, tis gone, and now we only have Google Drive and its 1TB limit for consumers.
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IKR?
This is why we can’t have nice things!
#christwhatanasshole
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another way to get a ton of data to test storage capacity with is:
cat /dev/zero >giant-Amazon-file
Or if you want something that compresses less well:
cat /dev/random >giant-Amazon-file
Or use tee to calculate the sha1 checksum at the same time you make the file so you can confirm that Amazon actually stores it for you.
Then you can separate the “can I store a ton of data” from the “will Amazon balk at being associated with the biggest pr0n collection ev3r!” Issues…
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1.8 petabytes? Nowhere near what would be required to store cat pics and video.
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This is the same kind of shit that killed OneDrive’s “unlimited” storage, too.
So… how many 'gig’ittys is that, precisely?
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yeah, like unlimited porn!
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Yet no one noticed.
Maybe not by people that still spell Microsoft with a dollar sign.
Who spells it at all, these days?
Maybe he did some of it from work, McDonalds, and friends houses.
Otherwise they might catch on and replace it with their /dev/urandom
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It’s like that asshole who challenged Montana’s “Reasonable and Prudent” speed limit and had it declared Unconstitutional on a “void for vagueness” basis.
