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Anyone can explain me how this business can do money other than having some plan that cost some money. I suppose that most of the account are "free" one. I have
by daok 17y ago
Anyone can explain me how this business can do money other than having some plan that cost some money. I suppose that most of the account are "free" one. I have hard time to understand how it can be profitable to run.
- unalone 17y agoThey charge money for more space. That's exactly how they make money. So what else are you asking?
- joez 17y agoI have to agree it was a badly worded question. I think the OP has bandwidth concerns. Dropbox could charge based off an upload metric similar to Evernote (which gives 40 MB of transfer free a month). http://www.evernote.com/about/premium/ http://www.evernote.com/about/premium/ While that model more closely aligns to bandwidth costs, I think dropbox is in a different market. For one, Dropbox is competing with external hard drives. It's easier to understand the value proposition when you can compare based on storage. I sure as hell have no idea how much 40 MB is in terms of use. I do some word docs and some pictures. If I do 5 saves an hour, averaging 10 kb in size and I work for 40 hours a week, is 40 MB enough storage?
- eli 17y agoLimits based on some ineffable-to-the-layman bandwidth usage numbers totally break the "it just works" factor
- unalone 17y agoThough I must admit, every time I share something with a friend in a public folder I worry that I'll trip up some "amount of shit you can give people" limit and end up banned.
- The_Lost_Hacker 17y agoWell, he was specifically asking what ELSE they can do to make money. The answer is nothing, for now, because they don't need to. He can't grasp the fact that they actually make enough money to employ 16 people.
- daok 17y agoIs it the only way they are doing money? I found suspicious that it can be the only way for DropBox to make money. Do you have any statistic about how much user does pay to have an account?