vs2013调用谷歌_自2013年以来，Google一直没有提供更多免费存储空间……这完全有道理...-CSDN博客

vs2013调用谷歌

Google used to routinely increase their free storage offerings, from 1GB in 2004 all the way up to 15GB in 2013. Since then the free quota hasn’t increased.

Google过去通常会免费增加存储容量，从2004年的1GB一直增加到2013年的15GB。此后，免费配额一直没有增加。

Jordan Novet, writing for CNBC, thinks this is a problem for the company. He recently ran out of free storage; here he is talking about his options:

乔丹·诺维特(Jordan Novet)为CNBC撰写文章，认为这对公司来说是个问题。他最近用光了免费存储空间。他在这里谈论他的选择：

I could clear up space by deleting emails (email takes up much more of my space than photos or files) or moving some data around to other Google accounts. Or I could move them to services from other providers like Microsoft, which I pay $99.99 per year for the Office 365 suite that includes Outlook for email and OneDrive for storage.

我可以通过删除电子邮件(电子邮件占用的空间比照片或文件多得多)或将一些数据移动到其他Google帐户来清理空间。或者，我可以将它们转移到Microsoft等其他提供商的服务中，我每年为Office 365套件支付99.99美元，其中包括Outlook for email和OneDrive for storage。

The simpler thing to do would be to pull out my credit card and start paying Google.

最简单的方法是拿出我的信用卡并开始向Google付款。

That would go against the original value proposition of Gmail, though

不过，这与Gmail的原始价值主张背道而驰

It’s true: a bunch of free storage really was the initial appeal of Gmail, and eventually Google Drive. Google regularly increasing the amount of free space drew about a billion people to the platform.

的确如此：大量的免费存储确实是Gmail最初的魅力，最终是Google云端硬盘。 Google定期增加可用空间，吸引了大约10亿人使用该平台。

But if growing a massive userbase was the plan here, mission accomplished. And giving away more free storage to your existing users doesn’t make economic sense unless doing so can attract new users, and it’s not clear how many more users Google can reasonably attract with free storage alone. So the company is trying to monetize their existing users, offering more storage for a fee. Here’s how those fees compare to other companies; it’s pretty reasonable, if unexceptional.

但是，如果在这里计划增加庞大的用户群，任务就完成了。除非向现有用户提供更多免费存储空间不算能吸引新用户，否则这在经济上是不合理的，而且尚不清楚Google仅凭免费存储空间就能合理地吸引多少用户。因此，该公司正试图通过其现有用户获利，以收费提供更多存储空间。这些费用与其他公司相比如何；如果没有例外，那是非常合理的。

As Novet points out, switching to another provider means migrating your data, which to most users is a very real barrier. Which is part of why Google worked so hard to build up a massive userbase in the first place: so more people would potentially be willing to pay eventually.

正如Novet所指出的，切换到另一个提供商意味着迁移您的数据，这对大多数用户来说是一个非常现实的障碍。这就是为什么Google如此努力地建立庞大的用户群的部分原因：因此更多的人最终可能愿意付费。

Is this nefarious? I can understand why some might think so, but only if you’re entitled enough to think that Google should give everything away forever. Every company needs to get paid eventually, and advertising alone can’t pay for massive amounts of storage. Which is why it totally makes sense that free storage isn’t going up, even if you don’t like it.

这是邪恶的吗？我能理解为什么有人会这样想，但前提是您有足够的权利认为Google应该永远放弃一切。每个公司最终都需要获得报酬，单靠广告并不能支付大量存储空间。这就是为什么即使您不喜欢免费存储也不会增加的原因。