Some people have taken "as much space as you need" too literally.

Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.

  • @hansl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15•1 year ago

    In the marketing department apparently.

    Companies should stop saying unlimited if we all agree nothing is unlimited, don’t you think?

    • @Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      We should be more responsible with services offered regardless what the service is otherwise. Growing up i remember life time guarantees, they no longer exist because these people who abuse services

      • @hansl@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Lifetime guarantees are absolutely still a thing. But it’s normally for higher priced items since the quality of the average ware went down.

        I agree with you that customers should become more responsible for the decisions they make. But we’ve proven time and time again (for decades if not longer) that customers are not rational actors that know everything about everything. Ads would never work if that was a thing.

        But here we are. There are laws against false advertising and words have exact meanings. The fact that “unlimited” is still not false advertising baffles me. It should be.

        I guess you’re okay with predatory wordings in product descriptions that target people who don’t understand that things cannot be without limits? Just because they should know better, ignoring the fact you don’t know everything? Where do you draw the line? Would you blindly trust a single drug description saying it cures cancer, though no such thing can ever exist?

      • @GroggyGuava@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        No, they no longer exist bc they were never sustainable, but they knew that in the first place and sold it as “life time” bc they knew they could make money by lying to customers. Lying is bad and we all agree businesses shouldn’t lie, no?