Accidental Tech Podcast618: Type System Says No
http://atp.fm/618
A new toy @marcoarment bought, a new toy @marcoarment swears he won't buy, many names @siracusa won't use for his app, and a snack of sharks.
illustro@atpfm @siracusa re the incentives for smaller photo sizes. Even though Apple charges for storage, they absolutely have the incentive to save storage space at the individual user level. They can sell 2TB of space to lots of users, but at the data centre level have less than 2 TB of space per person (because not everyone will use the whole 2TB at the same time). If they can save significant space over all of those users, then they can "afford" to sell more 2TB units per unit of storage. 1/
@atpfm @siracusa they will have some disincentive due to the fact they have "magic" ssds that cost many multiples per GB when they offer them as upgrades to people buying new products. But any reduction in upfront upgrades is offset by smaller iCloud requirements (for reference, 1PB of HDD storage at the enterprise level costs ~$23k, and if I can sell $10/month to ~500 users, or I can save ~50% of space and then use that same storage to back 600 users, then I am golden)