Let's say you are a 20 man company in need of some storage for your files. Here's how you have to do it: 1) Sign up at coinbase / and wait 5-7 days for your cash to deposit and your verification 2) Get your cash and make them into BTC. Hopefully at a good rate? 3) Sign up to an exchange and transform your BTC into SC 4) Download the SIA client and wait 3-4 hours to sync 5) Transfer your Sia coins to your wallet. 6) You got it! In addition, you are not quite sure how much that BTC got you in terms of value. Maybe you paid $250 but when you finally bought the SC the value was $300 and you bought less coins because of that. The finance department would have a bad time doing all the conversations and realising the true cost. Meanwhile, getting an AWS/Google Drive whatever else, can be done and set in an hour or so with a set up cost that you can track and get invoiced. Thoughts?
You have a point in the way that it can all be a bit faster. However, you set it up once and then you are good to go. The money you will safe, if we should trust the figures given, is a lot. Easily 5 to 10 times cheaper a TB. You can check the figures in a comment under the article i wrote about Sia today.