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If nothing else this just exposes how high Dropbox's margins must be.
by jliptzin 13y ago
If nothing else this just exposes how high Dropbox's margins must be.
- lucb1e 13y agoI think Dropbox actually spends a fair bit more on bandwidth because of all the syncing. As far as I know Google has no desktop client (and if they do they failed to offer it to me), whereas with Dropbox it's really the way to go. But in general yeah I agree, the margins of all these storage companies are very high. As I've said in other comments here, I think I can do it cheaper using consumer-priced hardware (let alone on a huge scale with hardware bought at near manufacturing costs).
- kalleboo 13y agoDropbox is based on Amazon S3 which at their cheapest advertised rate costs 4x more than than what Google is offering. (although with Dropbox's usage they can probably get a volume discount) I wonder if Dropbox have plans to start utilizing their own data center to get costs down...
- daave 13y ago> I wonder if Dropbox have plans to start utilizing their own data center to get costs down... Mid last year a recruiter from Dropbox told me they were looking into this, and wanted to make it happen in 2014.