Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 14, 2006 04:26 PM
Unlimited storage for $39 a year? LOL ROFL.
Have a look at what online backup services charge for 20GB of online backup. The unlimited part is A) a flat out lie since no way they are going be able to handle 5,000 users with 80GB collections and B) a promo which won't last for any significant period of time.
Right now, 80 GB of storage can be had for about $28 retail. <a href="http://www.pricewatch.com/prc.aspx?i=26&a=5794" title="pricewatch.com">See here...</a pricewatch.com> In bulk, it'd be considerably cheaper. And, next year, they could give you 50% more storage for the same price, and come out even further ahead. Based on the last 30 years of computing history, they could continue to give you 50% more each year for the same price, and make higher margins every year on that, year after year.
This doesn't sound that stupid to me. Like most business plans, it depends on "running lean" for a while until it develops sufficient inertia to be potentially largely profitable.
The biggest problem is the RIAA - but there are plenty of people who'll sell you "DAV-space" - web-DAV directories you can publish anything you like to. This sounds suspiciously like one of those types of services...
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Re:This won't last
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 14, 2006 04:26 PMHave a look at what online backup services charge for 20GB of online backup. The unlimited part is A) a flat out lie since no way they are going be able to handle 5,000 users with 80GB collections and B) a promo which won't last for any significant period of time.
Right now, 80 GB of storage can be had for about $28 retail. <a href="http://www.pricewatch.com/prc.aspx?i=26&a=5794" title="pricewatch.com">See here...</a pricewatch.com> In bulk, it'd be considerably cheaper. And, next year, they could give you 50% more storage for the same price, and come out even further ahead. Based on the last 30 years of computing history, they could continue to give you 50% more each year for the same price, and make higher margins every year on that, year after year.
This doesn't sound that stupid to me. Like most business plans, it depends on "running lean" for a while until it develops sufficient inertia to be potentially largely profitable.
The biggest problem is the RIAA - but there are plenty of people who'll sell you "DAV-space" - web-DAV directories you can publish anything you like to. This sounds suspiciously like one of those types of services...
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