DavidNielsen

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  1. I am not bothered by the limitations on the Free edition. I think the folder limit is a minor thing and instead I am very excited about the placeholder files feature which feels very much like how OneDrive supposedly used to work. I think that is going to be great, however it makes the most sense, at least of to me, with a centralized service. I am thus a bit sad to see that BitTorrent hasn't embraced making money from providing something like btsync.com. I'd much rather give my cloud storage money to BitTorrent Inc. than say Dropbox, and these days it can certainly pay off to over the long term to offer unlimited storage for a fixed yearly fee*. I just don't feel comfortable with having to manage and ensure the stability and reliability of an ever increasing storage pool, nor do I like my unreliable ISP being the source of the transfer limits at all times (rather than the one time upload of a traditional cloud storage solution). The upfront cost of a good solution for this is simply not tenable, I can get a lot of cloud storage for the price of 2 new 10 TB NAS drives (I currently use 4TB, 10TB feels like the next step up - plus one at a friends house for redundancy because.. fires happen), plus I don't have to worry about being the person responsible for hardware failure. I do like BitTorrent Sync as a cache for the cloud mothership within my house and Bittorrent is a far nicer protocol for handling the transfers themselves. It feels like it is the natural stepping stone to going all cloud in a way Dropbox, Mega or the other entrants don't currently based on limitations of storage. *I predict that storage prices keep going down, eventually being limited by running costs. However with services like Spotify, Netflix becoming better e.g. the total storage requirements for users should likely flatten as we will not need to store as much data, or at least the amount will not increase at the insane pace it has in the last decade.
  2. I'd personally really like to see btsync be available in this fashion. E.g. to provide access to my book collection via the excellent Marvin Reader on iOS in a similar way content on iCloud is handled in iBooks. There are so many interesting uses for mobile, I would even happily pay a reasonable monthly sum to sustain development provided this all be open sourced and documented. I strongly believe that btsync has huge potential to replace services like iCloud and Dropbox provided we can deliver this kind of integration on all platforms.