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Springfield, MO
On Thursday, Google significantly cut prices for its monthly online storage plans, according to MarketWatch.
Price changes include $1.99 from $4.99 for 100 gigabytes and $9.99 from $49.99 for 1 terabyte. Google offers 15 gigabytes for free.
“For Google and Microsoft, it’s not really about the money,” Avram Piltch, online editorial director of Laptop Mag and Tom’s Guide, told MarketWatch, “It’s about increasing membership and getting people to be part of their ecosystem.”
Microsoft’s OneDrive service offers 7GB for free and charges $25 a year for each 50GB. Dropbox offers only 2GB for free and charges $9.99 a month for each 100GB, up to 500GB.
“Google is doing to big data companies what Amazon has done to bookstores,” Arun Taneja, founder of the Taneja Group, a Hopkinton, Mass.-based consulting firm that specializes in storage technology, told MarketWatch. “It’s trying to change the world of storage.”
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