[cwyers]

> We believe that cloud computing is an amazing technology and that everybody should be able to benefit from its advantages. That's why we decided to reduce the price of the C1

Am I the only person who is turned off by that kind of marketing copy? You lowered prices because you thought you could sell more nodes, gain economy of scale, serve as a loss-leader, your costs went down, something. You didn't lower the prices because you wanted to do something nice for everybody.

[kukx]

Some things don't happen for only one reason. This is a business so obviously it is profit oriented, but it doesn't rule out that the company wants to actually do something good for the society.

[mikeash]

What's really odd is that if you take it at face value, the statement implies that they didn't care about helping people beforehand, or else the price would have been lower from the start.

[cwyers]

That's amazing, I hadn't even noticed that before but now that you've said it I can't not see it.

[mikeash]

I'm glad I could, uh, help.

[atrus]

The world isn't black and white, you can want to help and make money at the same time.

[kbenson]

I think the point is the disbelief in the cause and effect relationship as presented. I too find it a little hard to swallow that the reason the price was lowered is because they want everyone to be able to benefit from cloud computing advantages.

More likely in my estimation is that the cause and effect are reversed, and they wanted to lower prices (to gain market share, users and an advertising blurb) and that has the nice effect of opening cloud computing up to more people.

[tusbar]

It’s a pretty common practice from Xavier Niel (founder of Illiad, Free and Online) to cut prices in half to win market shares and reduce prices from the competition. He’s done that multiple times now: Free (ISP), Free mobile (MNO), Online (dedicated servers).

It has worked every time and competitors followed by reducing their prices as well.

[pixiez]

I think there can be a thousand valid (good) reason for them to lower the price, and it is good news for most people unless scaleway raise the price back once they gain more users. (if they do this, I wont use it again)

[jedisct1]

Prices are going down, and people complain. Go figure.

[Retra]

Are you interested in buying products from disingenuous people? There's more to a purchase than the price.

[powertower]

It's likely PR speak for - we are pricing our Cloud instances to stay competitive with Amazon and the other players.