Dollar Value of a Datamined "Free" Service User?

[JP]

Yep, this is more the freemium model part..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Ryan Carboni wrote:

> The marginal cost of providing an additional account to the average user is
> pretty cheap. It is my understanding that the business models of most
> "cloud" companies is to provide a little free service to get users
> accustomed to their UIs, so that they would purchase a business license or
> equivalent.
> 
> Dropbox does not make it's money through data mining or advertising.
> Correct me if I'm wrong.