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Dollar Value of a Datamined "Free" Service User?
- To: Ryan Carboni <[email protected]>
- Subject: Dollar Value of a Datamined "Free" Service User?
- From: [email protected] (JP)
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:18:55 -0800
- Cc: cpunks <[email protected]>
- In-reply-to: <CAO7N=i2joNdvT76fEH5jPXj2YPBJgWgmM_uTKCRwDDrGseNuAA@mail.gmail.com>
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Yep, this is more the freemium model part..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Ryan Carboni wrote:
> The marginal cost of providing an additional account to the average user is
> pretty cheap. It is my understanding that the business models of most
> "cloud" companies is to provide a little free service to get users
> accustomed to their UIs, so that they would purchase a business license or
> equivalent.
>
> Dropbox does not make it's money through data mining or advertising.
> Correct me if I'm wrong.