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I predict the quality of free Dropbox service will go down (or not significantly improve) after they become publicly-traded, similar to what happened to Faceboo
by em3rgent0rdr 10y ago
I predict the quality of free Dropbox service will go down (or not significantly improve) after they become publicly-traded, similar to what happened to Facebook, since the stockholders will force them to monetize the free accounts. They why I avoid using free but proprietary services.
- danieldk 10y agoThe quality of the Pro service already went down considerably: it has advertisement for the business version in all places. I guess that they want to drive up value for the IPO. I just don't understand why they are annoying Pro users. Not every Pro user uses Dropbox for company work. Not every Pro user is in a company/organization that will ever switch to Dropbox.
- em3rgent0rdr 10y agoMaybe they annoy the pro users with ads for the business version because they know the pro users have money and are willing to pay...somewhat targeted advertising.
- chmaynard 10y ago> I avoid using free but proprietary services. That eliminates a rather large fraction of the most popular online services, including Twitter, Skype, Spotify, Google Search, Square Cash, OKCupid, GitHub, and so on. Oh well, there's always Hacker News. Oops, Y Combinator owns that.