"While we started as a storage company, we‘ve grown to be a hub to manage your digital life."
I guess there's just no money in "very easy, super reliable, many device file sync."
I guess there's just no money in "very easy, super reliable, many device file sync."
(except me, I guess)
Imagine if you were the Stripe of multi-device sync. Sure maybe end users will never know your name but damn you’d be drowning in money.
Like imagine adding multidevice sync to your product with a simple library instead of everyone cobbling it from scratch and hiring huge teams to make it reliable.
Bigger companies are able to reduce the price of storage based on it's value to other features.
Some companies make storage cheaper by going through your data and/or selling it, this goes against our values and we won't do it.
Funny you give this as an example, that feature is completely unreliable for me. Netflix frequently forgets where I left off, and in the case of TV shows, which episodes I really did see all the way to the end, and which I didn't. Similarly on Prime Video, it's quite unreliable.
So a company tht solved it well enough as a backbone tech could be quite valuable on the market
See: multiple ways to skin a cat
Aside from that it does seem that Netflix sometimes 'forgets' if I wait a long time to go back to something, in which case I suppose there can be some sort of cleanup going on. I mean sure I would want to keep these timestamps forever, but probably at a certain scale you want to get rid of old ones as much as it might annoy me.