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1. Loss leading is not dumping. 2. Plenty of competitors in the storage space are still thriving including Dropbox, Box, Microsoft OneDrive, Backblaze, Amazon
by andromeduck 6y ago
1. Loss leading is not dumping.
2. Plenty of competitors in the storage space are still thriving including Dropbox, Box, Microsoft OneDrive, Backblaze, Amazon Drive, Apple iCloud, etc.
3. There's even more more competition on the photo sharing side of things like Instagram, Flickr, SmugMug, 500px, imgur, imageshack, Facebook, 1x, photoblog, etc.
4. Photos isn't even the largest service nor Google the most influential player in either sector.
- dredmorbius 6y agoLoss-leading to dissuade, discourage, weaken, or preempt market-based rivals is precisely dumping. https://traderiskguaranty.com/trgpeak/history-anti-dumping-countervailing-duties/ https://traderiskguaranty.com/trgpeak/history-anti-dumping-c... Or more properly, predatory pricing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
- andromeduck 6y agoRead your own links please and FYI Google Drive/Storage was far from the first to offer free storage, not by a long shot. Dropbox and Microsoft were offering of free storage years before Google even launched Drive. Free hosting in the photo sharing space predates Photos/Picasa by literally decades and even in their specific form they were never without major competitors from the likes of FB/MS/Flickr/Photobucket/IG etc.
- dredmorbius 6y agoIrrelevant.
- romwell 6y agoYeah, and which of those services you mentioned directly integrate with the camera and gallery app that ships with every other phone? Most pictures taken today are probably taken with an Android camera. Google is, indeed, the most influential player in that sector.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoApple iCloud