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		eropple on Aug 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Slack might learn from its Open Source altern... Slack lets you keep a history of 10,000 messages, and they're retained even if you're on the free tier. You just can't see them. S3 is a cent a gigabyte at scale, three cents when you're starting. sc1 drives on EBS are two and a half cents. Storage is a cheap, solved problem. You make people pay for what's important to them.

jjeaff on Aug 28, 2016 [–]

Same reason a 32GB iphone costs hundreds more for the next level of storage. And why 64gb is pretty much the largest offering. 64gb isn't enough? Pay for more icloud storage. Yet you can buy a 128gb sd card for $30.

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