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People have been saying this about Dropbox since iCloud came out, but what has changed? Have usage statistics changed? Have Google Drive and One Drive come clos

People have been saying this about Dropbox since iCloud came out, but what has changed? Have usage statistics changed? Have Google Drive and One Drive come close in feature set? Has Office dropped support for them? I mean the linked article suggests that this is the case without ever showing us the bases for the assumptions. As far as I know, if we are looking at major players in the field, iCloud should worry the most, since it is something that nobody uses.

ChuckMcM 11y ago
I think many people see the Box performance: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/box/interactive-chart?timeframe=6m&charttype=line http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/box/interactive-chart?timeframe... and they see how challenging it is for Box to hold its 1+ billion valuation in the public markets, and look at the $1.1B DropBox has raised, and think "hmm, its getting close to being unable to even meet liquidation preferences." I know Box and DropBox are different, but for a lot of people they have the word "box" in their name, they provide cloud storage, and that is the extent of their understanding of the offerings. So the question is, what will be the 2016 news from DropBox? And yes, there are doubters who have put them in the deadpool.
- muddi900 11y ago
  I am guessing there real problem is that they don't have any productivity suite attached to their cloud service. Google has Google Docs(which is why I went with it over Dropbox for my small business), which is the best free Office Competitor, and OneDrive has all the might of MS Office. I think they just allowed commenting and editing Word docs through their webapps recently. Evernote has the note market cornered. Google Keep looks like yet another silly google experiment that they might one day pull the plug on (like Reader :-( ), and Apple Notes, like icloud, only really works on Apple devices. OneNote just got free, and has got some great features and comes with Windows 10, but I don't think most non-Office365 subscribers even know it exists.

ChuckMcM 11y ago

I think many people see the Box performance: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/box/interactive-chart?timeframe=6m&charttype=line http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/box/interactive-chart?timeframe... and they see how challenging it is for Box to hold its 1+ billion valuation in the public markets, and look at the $1.1B DropBox has raised, and think "hmm, its getting close to being unable to even meet liquidation preferences." I know Box and DropBox are different, but for a lot of people they have the word "box" in their name, they provide cloud storage, and that is the extent of their understanding of the offerings. So the question is, what will be the 2016 news from DropBox? And yes, there are doubters who have put them in the deadpool.

muddi900 11y ago
I am guessing there real problem is that they don't have any productivity suite attached to their cloud service. Google has Google Docs(which is why I went with it over Dropbox for my small business), which is the best free Office Competitor, and OneDrive has all the might of MS Office. I think they just allowed commenting and editing Word docs through their webapps recently. Evernote has the note market cornered. Google Keep looks like yet another silly google experiment that they might one day pull the plug on (like Reader :-( ), and Apple Notes, like icloud, only really works on Apple devices. OneNote just got free, and has got some great features and comes with Windows 10, but I don't think most non-Office365 subscribers even know it exists.