The cost of the space is quickly approaching meaningless [1] and people are streaming more and more which reduces the need for space in some heavy areas - you d

The cost of the space is quickly approaching meaningless [1] and people are streaming more and more which reduces the need for space in some heavy areas - you don't need to store local copies of music, movies, tv shows etc anymore when you have on demand unlimited access to them. Expenses also get eroded by constant progress towards automation. As one example it was only a few years ago that Heroku pioneered a way of deploying apps that removed a shitload of manual labor maintaining and scaling apps, which has now become widespread with competition and freely available through open source. [1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2599484/seagates-monstrous-8tb-hard-drive-is-the-most-spacious-storage-yet.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2599484/seagates-monstrous-8t... Also in that article - "Right now on Amazon you can get a 4TB desktop drive for just under $200, with 5 and 6 TB drives edging closer to $300." Dropbox's $100/year for 1 TB is just closer to what it should be.