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i can imagine that some online services are doing the same thing, or at least hoping for the same effect: users who pay a subscription fee but don't use it. of
by jnazario 15y ago
i can imagine that some online services are doing the same thing, or at least hoping for the same effect: users who pay a subscription fee but don't use it. of course, when they do, if they didn't expect it and can't afford to scale they go under.
anyone know how big the parallels are between the economic models used by gyms and many online services?
- dangrossman 15y ago>90% of sites on the web pay a shared hosting company that offers unlimited disk space and bandwidth. Every Netflix subscriber that has a red envelope sitting on a table somewhere for weeks at a time. Comcast internet service comes with 1GB of storage for a personal website. They don't have 22,000 terabytes in hard drives allocated to that, I'm sure.
- tomjen3 15y agoI don't think most of the online services work to make you use their site less. Paying for a gym membership is a goal in itself in that you can say 'I go to the gym'. Having a paid account at $SERVICE doesn't have the same meaning since you can always switch and there is social pressure. But certainly no hosting company actually has thousands of GB laying around.