This quote from the article about dropbox..."Even though overpriced in many ways, it is simple and easy-to-use and save my asked [sic] a number of times."
I'm up to 11GB free, it's possible. I've sent them over 150 referrals, most of whom've completed signup. Plus doing things like taking the tutorial, etc.
The referral model by dropbox must be awesome for customer acquisition.
150 referrals, wow. Do you experience some kind of saturation by now, in that it becomes increasingly harder to find a potential new user who hasn't yet subscribed?
actually I don't put any work into getting referrals at all, so I don't know. I wrote a blog post about it and put the link on twitter a few times, and the referrals just keep pouring in - I'd love to know where they all come from to be honest! I've hit the limit as to my free space allowance now.
If you compare the price with solutions without the syncing experience, you can e.g. get a 100GB package from Strato HiDrive for 5EUR a month.
(edit:) or 500GB for 10EUR/month.
OK, well let's compare the price without the online backup experience - I can get a 1TB hard disk for £41, so 10EUR a month for 500GB doesn't look like good value to me.
And a 10EUR keyboard has more buttons for even less money.
But seriously: the price for Dropbox consists (invisibly) of storage costs and rent for the comfortable client software. Depending on what value one assigns to that client software, Dropbox may be subjectively overpriced.
Absolutely - hence my snarky response to you comparing apples with apple pie :)
And of course pricing and assigned values are subjective, when but the original article says Dropbox is "overpriced in many ways" even though it's simple, and has saved his "asked" many times, and is now the de facto data sharing platform for iOS, I very much question whether Dropbox is, in fact, "overpriced in many ways".
Seriously? $99 per year for 50GB is overpriced?