Comment on How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company?

hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not just the first hit in general but this also sounds likely to be a bait-and-switch. They will roll with that free 1TiB as long as they can for marketing and market capture. They have a few profit streams (ads, whales on bigger plans) to help cover those marketing costs. But most likely they will not be profitable and eventually will reduce/remove the free plan and try to upgrade as many users as possible to the paid plan (reducing costs and increasing revenue in one go).

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    its 100% going to be a bait and switch. It starts at 1TB, then it downgrades to a lower amount (seems like 30 GB), then eventually it will be downgraded even more. Eventually it will be under what you are utilizing and you will need to either upgrade your plan for a premium, or migrate your data elsewhere.

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