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Microsoft might follow Apple's lead of OS developers including cloud sync. That's gonna leave a mark on Dropbox's business.
by robotresearcher 9y ago
Microsoft might follow Apple's lead of OS developers including cloud sync. That's gonna leave a mark on Dropbox's business.
- josteink 9y agoThat would be a much more serious contender, yes. But an Apple-only offering? Not at all.
- onion2k 9y agoI'd guess that Dropbox make most of their revenue from businesses that have large numbers of different computers. If you have a network of computers all running the same OS then sharing and sync'ing is relatively easy; Dropbox solves the pain where you don't have that. Any service that's Apple-only, or Windows-only, or even just perceived to be limited to a particular OS, isn't going to have much of an impact on Dropbox's bottom line.
- robotresearcher 9y agoThere's value in cross-platform, sure. I stuck with Dropbox because they have Linux and Mac clients. But aren't there whole government departments and other very big customers that are pretty much single-platform, usually Windows?
- detaro 9y ago> But aren't there whole government departments and other very big customers that are pretty much single-platform, usually Windows? Would be interesting to know how much that class of customer uses services like this. I would assume primarily as part of a bigger package (e.g. if it comes with Office365 or Google Suite (or whatever that is called right now))?
- dahauns 9y ago> Microsoft might follow Apple's lead of OS developers including cloud sync. You mean OneDrive?
- robotresearcher 9y agoYeah, I guess so. It's had so little impact on my world that I forgot all about it.