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	qwazix	2012-05-06 , 02:04
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Originally Posted by misterc

my 1st thought was... «512 MBs :-o ... most Maemo apps are in the "few MB" range, who on earth would need 512 for one app ?!? »
then i went on to [Announce] EasyList for N9/N950 and thought...
«512 for one app, huh??? 1st come, 1st served or...»
i wonder whether the Community has the ressources (i.e. storage space) for cloud storage;
shouldn't we leave this to big players like Google & Co who can afford to offer 10GB for free to each subscriber & can sell 10s or 100s of GB if wished?
or... do you have a new business plan for Maemo.org?

then again, who would care?

I am not talking about the application itself, but for users data. 500mb should be enough for all users EZlists for example, or for all data for a contact sync app. Cloud apps that offer file storage already exist and are out of the scope of this proposal exactly for the reason you mentioned (funding).

Very few apps need cloud storage, maybe less than 10 for each platform. So allocating a total of 5gb to this purpose shouldn't be a real problem. If later on more apps need cloud space we could put a payment system and ask a small contribution from the users of those apps.

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