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Old 04-12-2005, 05:24 PM
mcsouth
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I guess that I can see the value in this service, to a point, however, I wonder how many folks will find this service "indispensable" enough to justify the $5/month or $39/annual subscription fees? File sharing? You can already do that with numerous photo sites that will host your photos for free for family and friends to see. Document access? Couldn't you accomplish much the same thing with a VNC client?

Okay, I must admit that the "resizing" images on the fly to fit your mobile device sounds neat, although if you wanted to copy the original file over, I wonder what happens? Having access to all of your files from anywhere is certainly an addictive thought - hence all the personal computing devices that have cropped up over the years. This certainly seems like an interesting variation on the "online storage" option that I have seen, where you just keep all of your files on a "secure" server that you can connect to, but I do wonder how many people will actually subscribe for the long term in order to make this service financially viable...
 
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