The rise of free
In case you haven’t already read the article, WIRED’s Chris Anderson offers an in-depth explanation of the current state of freeness in the world and on the Web.
Just as Moore’s law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster. Which is to say, the trend lines that determine the cost of doing business online all point the same way: to zero.
It’s a great read if you’ve ever wondered how services like Google, Flickr, and those free iPod sites stay in business.
For a few hundred dollars year, just about anyone can open a web development place. The only big cost would physical space.
Comment by Alan Whitney — March 14, 2008 @ 7:57 am