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The reason WhatsApp is valuable is because a chat app is rather useless without a massive userbase. That's not true for file syncing. Having a massive user bas

by PeCaN 10y ago

The reason WhatsApp is valuable is because a chat app is rather useless without a massive userbase. That's not true for file syncing. Having a massive user base may be all that matters for inherently social applications, but Dropbox is definitely not one of those.

gaius 10y ago
It depends how much it's used for sharing files.
Fomite 10y ago
It matters because an established DropBox user might not care to add other services. For example, all the new students in my lab will be using DropBox, because its what their PI uses.