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Dropbox Slashes Its Price as the Cost of a Gigabyte Nears Zero

• amarcus 12y ago
  To be pedantic - they didn't slash their price. It's still the same. They are now just offering additional space.
• minimaxir 12y ago
  This has been discussed multiple times today, each time triggering the flame war detector. (# comments > # points AND # points > 40ish) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8231917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8231917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8232184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8232184
• Retric 12y ago
  The economics of this is interesting. Drop-box does not store multiple copy's of identical files for each user. So, their cost per GB drops as they add users. Which also means if they start to lose users they may need to raise prices, which could quickly cause a death spiral.
  • gordon_freeman 12y ago
    Also Not storing multiple copies of each file is really bad product-wise as there were some incidents where users lost their data stored on Dropbox with no other backups (relying heavily on cloud storage). Read here: https://medium.com/@jan.curn/how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-deleted-my-8000-photos-cb7dcf13647b https://medium.com/@jan.curn/how-bug-in-dropbox-permanently-...