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fheld | 5 years ago

"Is image.canon free to use? Yes, it is free to use."

from: image.canon/st/en/faq.html

so as of now there is no recurring revenue added as of now

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jacquesm|5 years ago

And there won't be at this rate. Besides, it is now a net negative for their users.

'The cloud is not a backup' should be a mantra that everybody that uses the cloud for their work and personal data be familiar with.

chrisseaton|5 years ago

> The cloud is not a backup

Of course the cloud is a backup. Why do you think it isn’t? Because it may break? All storage may break.

The cloud is a backup. Like all backups, you need multiple independent backups.

tpolzer|5 years ago

The cloud is a backup. Just like any other backup you should test restore or at least verify the data regularly.

I trust Google more than a random hard drive (to not lose random bits) in this respect.

And unless your admin configured it away, GSuite allows takeout just like GMail afaik?

traveler01|5 years ago

I use the Cloud to store all my work and it's my way of backup. I trust Google's capacity to save my files. But, this being said, you SHOULD have other ways of backing up your data, like another HDD, storing locally in your PC too.

Being too careful is never enough.

syshum|5 years ago

No single repository of data is ever a backup

A Backup requires

* 3 Copies of the data

* 2 Copies on Different Media / Services (i.e Amazon Photos + Cannon Images)

* At least 1 copy in a Geographic diverse location...

aka the 3-2-1 Rule

If you do not have those 3 items at a MINIMUM then your data is not backed up

tpetry|5 years ago

I guess thousands of companies and startups on hn would have a problem if amazon lost files on s3. Its easy to say the cloud is no backup, but its hard sometimes to have all data in multiple locations synced.

merb|5 years ago

well it is a backup. if you loose the backup but have the original, there is no problem. if you loose the original but have the backup on a cloud, there is no problem.

of course if you loose both at the same time, that's bad. actually the best thing is of course to use multiple backup locations

vermilingua|5 years ago

As an aside, how the hell does Canon have their trademark as a TLD? Google, at least, I understand, because they control a sizeable portion of DNS; but Canon?

human_error|5 years ago

Yeah no... I might be wrong but the last time I checked it cost around $200K to register a TLD. If you pay $200K, you get a TLD.

prepend|5 years ago

Selling customer data is a recurring stream. There’s likely also something in there about selling access to photo sets for training purposes.