The Economics of Dropbox

Re:The Economics of Dropbox by webwright on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:20AM (#2470945)

I love Dropbox as much as anyone, but unless you're using it for audio, video or (lots of) photography, the free offering is plenty. I'd be surprised if they were much north of 5%.

That said, they've got a great "long game". Everyone will fill it up EVENTUALLY-- and then you have to choose between nuking files and converting to premium.

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Re:The Economics of Dropbox by revorad on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:54AM (#2471073)

I don't use Dropbox for audio, video or photos, and I'm already using more than 3.3G. A lot of my folders are probably things I put in there to quickly share it with someone or access it from another computer. I could move them now and free up some space. But, I can't be bothered. That's one reason why people will convert to premium. The hassle of sorting through folders is probably not worth $100 to many.

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Re:The Economics of Dropbox by enra on Thursday April 21, 2011 @05:11PM (#2472410)

I've created over 1GB .psd files just in couple of weeks and my total usage is now around 40GB. So I guess lot of designers need the pro version if they want to use Dropbox.

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