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The difference in price between amazon S3 (on top of which dropbox relies) and google is too big for dropbox to be competitive as it is now. Things must change.
by crocowhile 17y ago
The difference in price between amazon S3 (on top of which dropbox relies) and google is too big for dropbox to be competitive as it is now. Things must change.
Scenario1: Dropbox will have no other choice but switch their client to support google's API and, consequently, lower the price. They will gain a new load of customers and do fine.
Scenario2: google acquires dropbox. See scenario 1
Scenario3: google releases their own sync client/dropbox clone. Dropbox dies. Google wins doing evil (is competition evil?)
Scenario4: Google does like Pontius Pilate: releases API and let the market decide. Dropbox still likely to win.
Did I miss anything? It seems to me Dropbox has 1/4 chance of getting screwed, 3/4 of win.
- elblanco 17y agoFor scenario 1: I guess a secondary question, if scenario 1 happens, what this means for S3 as a cloud storage solution? I know the market is not that big, but google's cost competitiveness on cloud storage has to have some effect. 2: I think the likelihood of this is low, unless Google does it to kill off dropbox. 3: I personally would probably use both, but for different reason, google's sync so I can remotely manage documents I want to use in google's apps, and dropbox for a quick and dumb file syncing for other stuff. I can see the competitiveness still working out here. 4: I agree, I'm a huge fan of dropbox, see #3 above.