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Look, I completely get what you're saying. It probably would be more precise to say the price points of Protonmail's tiers are not competitive. Sure, Google c
by imagine99 5y ago
Look, I completely get what you're saying.
It probably would be more precise to say the price points of Protonmail's tiers are not competitive.
Sure, Google can offer cheaper prices due to exploitation of data (even though on Gsuite Business and EDU plans they claim not to mine the data). But I find it difficult to believe that Google (on average) pulls a value of $21,500 out of every 2 TB of data stored on their servers (maybe I'm wrong).
I'm not saying Protonmail (or any other viable competitor offering security and full encryption) needs to beat Google, MS etc. on pricing. People are willing to pay a (sensible) premium for that. Just not 5 or 10 times. Probably not even double. But a 30%-50% markup (with feature parity!) sounds absolutely fair.
I can only say that personally, I just found it impossible over the years - even though I really tried multiple times - to "sell" Protonmail's offering to clients. It always failed, ultimately, because of the pricing structure and the "nickel-and-diming". Their plans are just not attractive or convincing at all, from multiple angles, that's it.