There was a time when Intel basically had a monopoly and buying AMD wasn’t worth it at all, but those people who bought AMD products saved us all, and now all of us are benefiting from it.
If it’s not worth it for you and price is a bigger concern than privacy, freedom, and supporting ethical business, then go ahead and get Google One or anything else, but that doesn’t mean that paying for Ente isn’t worth it.
I am not saying I won’t pay for it. I am saying asking double or triple or even more price for a service when there are other alternatives, won’t make any sense. Everyone is bashing Apple, Google, Microsoft being big corpo, what about Proton? Apple is also E2EE with advanced data protection feature, so no one is harvesting data.
Of course price is important and asking 240 Euro per year for 2 TB is outrageous. There are cheaper alternatives which are respecting privacy. Even Nextcloud has photo management feature now.
I won’t stop anyone paying high amounts of money to a service, it is their money but I won’t pay that amount.
Edit. Changed Ente price from 480 Euro to 240 Euro.
I would appreciate it if you would check your sources before making such claims. As I said in my previous comment, Ente has recently changed their pricing, and currently 2 TB would cost either 239.88 € or 287.88 € / year, depending on whether you pay monthly or one year in advance.
239,88 EUR (sept.11.2024)
for the 12 months of the annual plan
source
@Critical_Crab5543 and @MMA-block
Yes, that was an error on my part. I updated my previous posts to 240 Euro, and it’s still too high compared to the competition.
Another thing is that they’re positioning themselves as a Google Photos competitor, so they should adjust their pricing to at least Google levels. Google offers a lot of extra services with Google One, not just photo storage and management. Privacy-wise, Ente is better, but with that pricing, they can’t compete with Google.
If they can lower the prices by at least half, then it will be more in line with what customers are willing to pay.
You have something like cloudflare WARP if you want a free VPN. You’re pretty much going to have to rely on bigger companies that make money from other sources if you want services like this for free though.
And honestly I don’t even know of a free provider that lets you store any substantial amount of data, even non E2EE.
