Recognizing that it can't keep up with the Dropboxes of the cloud storage world, Canonical elects to shut down its Ubuntu One file service.



From ZDNet:

Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, has realized that it can't keep up with Dropbox, Google Drive, and other inexpensive cloud file storage options so it's shutting down its Ubuntu One cloud file service.

Canonical introduced Ubuntu One in 2009 with the release of Ubuntu 9.10. The service offered 5GBs of storage. If you opted for the paid Ubuntu One Music service for $3.99 a month, you also got music streaming and additional 20GBs of storage.

If you follow personal cloud storage at all, you can already see the problem Canonical was running into: They weren't offering enough storage at a low enough price.

  Canonical closes down Ubuntu One cloud file services