Damn, I was hoping this was going to spur Amazon to cut prices.
Google Storage Now Available To Developers
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Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers
#62At Google's scale I would have guessed that they would have had no difficulty in matching and even beating Amazon's pricing. This is surprising. Why so?
Perhaps they're looking to grow the service slowly initially? If they announced pricing significantly lower than amazon's right at launch they'd get a flood of new traffic that could overload however much resources they provisioned for launch. By starting out with a slightly higher pricing model, they can test out the service with production customers, and slowly reduce prices to attract more business when they're confident they can handle the load.
Re: Google Storage Now Available To Developers
#63Download data: $0.15 to Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa $0.30 to Asia-Pacific So if a bunch of people from Japan decide to download from your app, you are screwed.
You're screwed if a bunch of people download from your app from anywhere, for sufficiently large values of 'bunch'.
Not if they paid you a sufficiently large sum of money for the privilege of downloading your app. :-)
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're screwed if a bunch of people download from your app from anywhere, for sufficiently large values of 'bunch'.
Not if they paid you a sufficiently large sum of money for the privilege of downloading your app. :-)
Truth. My comment was quite negatively off-base, considering lots of downloads is what everybody strives for. I almost deleted it. Funny it got so many upvotes, should have been downvoted to oblivion.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll spell it out very clearly: Google's mission is "to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Gmail helps my company organize our email and communication, and makes it accessible from any computer anywhere in the world. S3 helps my company organize our information and distribute it around the world. S3 helps dropbox organize their users information and make it accessible fro…
Gmail is a product, S3 is a piece of infrastructure used by other products. Google's mission is also to make money, companies make money by focusing on their core strengths. I would rather have Google not clone other people's products, Microsoft did that and they failed over and over again. S3 may help you organize your information, but that information is probably not public, and if it is then Google's services can…
S3 is most definitely a product. They charge for it, don't they?