OT squared 🙂
You are not the best example. Your cost is down because the technology allows more efficient resource pooling and finer slicing, so someone can sell the unused bandwidth, cycles and storage to you. It will cost you much more if you decide to grow with the industry and allow users to create, edit and share MP3’s.
But we are talking about unparalleled requirements. Hundreds of millions of users. And you need to stay on the edge or you’ll be forgotten.
We’ll see. So far they are losing money and it’s been like that since the inception six years ago. Same with MySpace, hi5, Friendster… LinkedIn made profit with a different subscription based model.
