daperl,

I'll disagree with you on that...

- You can pass on the additional costs ($1-5) to the consumer and not a single dissident voice will be heard...

The plain truth is Google and Amazon want you to use their cloud services and make you dependent on the cloud even more... In the long run it gives them information about you for selling ads as well as giving them an option to charge you whatever nominal charge for their cloud services...

its simply giving you storage now in exchange for your dependency to them in the long run...

To believe anything else or the costs argument is exactly what they want you to believe; FUD...