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By the time DO started competing with Linode, it wasn't worth Linode's time to care about a cheap $5 box. The only problem is that people go to a $5 droplet and
by Xeoncross 12y ago
By the time DO started competing with Linode, it wasn't worth Linode's time to care about a cheap $5 box. The only problem is that people go to a $5 droplet and stay for a $XXX droplet.
Linode should have taken them seriously.
- debacle 12y agoEh, if I ever need a real machine I would switch back to Linode. It's not very difficult and the support is astronomically better. But it would definitely be to Linode's benefit to gank DO's $5 option.
- matwood 12y agoIt is so common there is even a term for it, 'Disruptive Innovation' [1]. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in a new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation