{"id":484,"date":"2012-08-26T10:52:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T08:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.asym.dk\/?p=484"},"modified":"2012-08-26T10:52:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T08:52:41","slug":"a-buggy-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/26\/a-buggy-business-model\/","title":{"rendered":"A buggy business model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox is sending users e-mails like the one below. But there&#8217;s a problem: My dropbox is <em>not<\/em> nearly full. It seems Dropbox is including files in other peoples folders which have been shared read\/write with me in the calculation of how much space my files are taking up. This is obviously a bug.<br \/>\nOr is it? Dropbox is marketing their service as a file sharing service, and they&#8217;re encouraging users to use it to share photos and other stuff with friends and relatives. This marketing is paying off: Users are signing up like never before (I know that because I see more friends signing up). As new Dropbox users start sharing files with me, the amount of space remaining on my Dropbox account is reduced. Essentially they&#8217;re asking me to pay for other users&#8217; files.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s an alternative, though: I can earn space by asking others to sign up, thereby accelerating the problem.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure this is going to earn Dropbox a lot of revenues, so it should probably be counted as a feature. I&#8217;d call it a buggy one, since users will notice, and I&#8217;m sure this will kick back on Dropbox.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t remember who said it, but it&#8217;s still true: If you&#8217;re offered something for free on the internet, then that<em> something\u00a0<\/em>is not the product. Then <em>you <\/em>are the product.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asymaps.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/dropbox.png\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"http:\/\/asymaps.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/dropbox.png?w=750\" alt=\"Billede\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox is sending users e-mails like the one below. But there&#8217;s a problem: My dropbox is not nearly full. It seems Dropbox is including files in other peoples folders which have been shared read\/write with me in the calculation of how much space my files are taking up. This is obviously a bug. Or is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asym.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}