This price of scalability is an interesting animal. Looking at AWS
(for an example) transfer out bandwidth charges alone, the lowest and
most expensive usage bracket is full 6x (SIX TIMES) more expensive
then the highest and least expensive bracket. Considering that it's
just bandwidth and that it considers the least amount of "effort" to
dissect and repackage into smaller doses, it is quite clear how much
us little guys are subsidization the big boys.
Was the whole idea of volume buying not based on a premise of
"economies of scale" ? Using delivery of physical goods as an
example, was it all not supposed to be based on the premise that
delivering a truck load of something is lot more economical then
delivering a single pallet or a single book of matches? If so, then
what is it about bandwidth that makes it SIX TIMES more expensive to
deliver to us smaller guys?
Are these sorts of pricing discounts in fact not the world's biggest
price collusions and price fixing? How can the little guy ever manage
to compete when it has to forever keep on subsidizing the big boys?
Where would the big conglomates ever be and what would really their
bottom lines look like if they had to pay their fare share?
When it comes to bandwidth, I can not image a price differential that
is more than TWICE - between the smallest and the biggest bandwidth
users?
ARE WE THE ONES WHO ARE MAKING FINANCIALLY VIABLE USAGE MONSTERS SUCH
AS
WWW.YOUTUBE.COM ?!?
On Jul 3, 8:27 am, Tony <
lpth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just read this posthttp://
www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~silver/gae.html