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Your assumption (also the assumption in the article) is that the pricing won't change after it gets easier to fully use the space.
by brlewis 15y ago
Your assumption (also the assumption in the article) is that the pricing won't change after it gets easier to fully use the space.
- artursapek 15y agoI would be really shocked if Google charged for a service like this, it fits in with Docs and Gmail which have both always been free and have made storage space easier to fully use. If anything, they will profit off of it by people investing in even more storage with them.
- esutton 15y agoin addition as time progresses the cost of storage has gone down and can be expected to continue to do so.
- brlewis 15y agoDocs and gmail let you slowly fill available space while being exposed to Google Ads. A Dropbox clone would let you fill available space quickly without ads.
- artursapek 15y agoThat's a fair point. It does look like they have an in-browser UI though, and it will drive more traffic to Google in general. The Chrome browser is another desktop app that doesn't directly benefit their ad campaign, but they have put a lot of time into.
- icebraining 15y agoGmail has POP3, IMAP and SMTP for free without ads.
- brlewis 15y agoYes, and GMail for mobile is ad-free. On average, though, I would expect more storage+bandwidth costs per ad impression from a GDrive user than from a GMail user, if GDrive turns out to be similar to Dropbox.