I wish you the best of luck and appreciate your style of running a business, but I stand by my analysis.
If your product is storage, and is unlimited at a flat rate, and you continue to scale, you will have to throttle somewhere (speed, "image quality", upload rate, whatever) or you'll be out of business.
So maybe your product isn't plain old storage ? Maybe this doesn't apply to you. Again, cheers and best of luck to you.
Well, you're right that we're not plain old storage. We're not Dropbox or something.
We're unlimited JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs, and our target market is people passionate about photography. That is a major differentiator, and certainly helps constrain costs.
That being said, we do have some truly giant consumers. But it works. :)
I just think, fundamentally, people don't want to worry about managing their photo storage. I certainly don't. So I built a service that doesn't have that constraint, then figured out how to make money at it.
If your product is storage, and is unlimited at a flat rate, and you continue to scale, you will have to throttle somewhere (speed, "image quality", upload rate, whatever) or you'll be out of business.
So maybe your product isn't plain old storage ? Maybe this doesn't apply to you. Again, cheers and best of luck to you.