Are you new to the industry? A lot of things around you offered for free make business with your data and throwing ads on your face and make business behind the curtains
Since you mentioned Google drive in particular, the purpose is to get you into the Google ecosystem. Gmail, Google photos, Google docs, etc. Once you're in the ecosystem, it's more likely that they can monetize you, eg. pay for extra Google drive storage, pay to get photos printed from Google photos, etc. I'm not exactly sure how ads tie into Google drive specifically. Google doesn't use data in your drive to serve you ads.
Yep currently happening started using google drive out of convience but have been putting more data in there so either A) I need to find alternative or 2)pay for more storage, guess which Iām gonna do?
Prime storage since u already got Prime? š
āfreemiumā you can buy extra Drive storage, 15G isnāt enough for all users esp corp users also there is partner revenue, ie Samsung Galaxy devices give you more GDrive storage for some years with a purchase. They pay Google for that
It is more like Costco selling a huge pizza for $10 and quarter pound hot dog for $1 and other free samples when you shop there. They definitely lose money in those areas, but will make up when you buy other stuff.
Not mentioned is the concept of giving away personal accounts for free and charging for enterprise accounts. You sign up for a free account for personal use and then when there is a business need for the product at work, you suggest that your company purchases the product you are already personally familiar with.
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Cuz u r the product. The drive isn't the service they r gonna make money off of. Just like fishermen give away bait for free to the fishes. Cuz the fishes r the product that they r gonna sell.
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