MS won't gnash their teeth over losing a customer who uses OneDrive for music storage but doesn't want to pay for either OneDrive or Groove.
Exactly. Which is why they are no longer producing all the super-low-end Lumias. Introducing the 950 and 950XL is a start to attract a clientele that doesn't mind paying for things. Will it anger people who want free stuff? Absolutely. But their investors will be happy with higher returns on their stock.
Also, if google (Microsoft's competitor in not only cloud storage but also phone OS) offers 15gb free and MS offers only 5gb it takes value away from Windows phone.
Using that analogy, iPhone has no value. They only offer 5GB free as well. Try to tell that to an iPhone user and they will laugh you out of the building.
I'm not a freeloader but I'm also not a sucker and if I can get a better price I will. If I need more storage I will pay for it but I won't pay for 15gb when the competitor gives that much away for free. I think at minimum Microsoft should reward those who bought into their phone ecosystem with a reasonable amount of space to store there photos and music included. Just my 2 cents.
I'm one of the cheapest people alive, as far as "I won't pay for it if I can get it free or find a better deal somewhere else." However, I also have to balance quality and value with the price. Each person will have to judge if the quality/value/price meets his/her criteria.
For example, I can buy 6 different brands of bread flour at the local store. However, 4 of the brands produce unpredictable results because of the way they process it. The amount of gluten in those brands aren't stable, which means you won't get consistent results when baking. If I'm having to throw out 1 in 3 loaves of bread because of this, then 20% cheaper means nothing to me. The best value is the one that is consistent. (True story on the bread flour. Yes, I went to culinary school, among other things.)
Google does indeed offer 15GB free, and they offer unlimited photo storage. However, that unlimited photo storage is a type of storage where they compress your photos that you store online, causing the image quality to be reduced in a way that is unacceptable to me. They also get permission to use your photos through their Terms of Service. As someone who gets paid for some of the pictures he takes, that takes away a LOT of value for me. I don't take pictures for social media, so I need the highest quality photos that my device can produce.
However, Google Drive is a service that is quite acceptable for many. It just doesn't suit my needs, as I need more than 15GB, and I don't want my photos compressed.
MEGA is a fairly good option, but the founder left the company stating that the files stored there are no longer secure. I don't know the full details about all that, but it seems to be a concern. It's fairly new, and MEGA's predecessor was shut down by law enforcement. I'm just not sure if I want to trust them with my data.
had O-365 and found it to be a terrible problem - constant lag, constant crash. I quit, bought full Office (for $399), and am much happier. Now I wish people who bought real Office could also get 1TB, but we can't, so I'm willing to pay. But now I don't even have that option. Real stupid way to treat a loyal customer, MS.
There is zero difference between Office 365 and the full Office, as you say. Office 365 is the full office, with the exception that you get to continue to update to the newest version of the full Office every time a new one is released, like from 2010 to 2013 to 2016, etc.
If you were having those issues, and they went away when you bought the "full Office", then you had a bad download and install somehow. There is zero difference other than being able to keep up to date and not having to pay full price up front.
Especially when you think that it is less than 1 cup of coffee.
Not for me, really. I make my own coffee, and it costs me less than 3 cents per cup. Those coffee shops make a killing, don't they? It would take approximately 67 cups of coffee to pay for the 50GB per month, which for me is nearly 2 weeks worth of coffee. It's still cheap, though.
Since I am a user that needs Office anyway, I've got the Office 365, and plan to continue to pay for that. I have an additional 2 TB of storage on a web server that I lease for private use and unlimited bandwith on that private server. I pay much more for the private server than I do for Office 365, and the domains that I pay for upkeep on yearly have a combined price also higher than the Office 365 account.