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• bad_user 8y ago
  Is Dropbox supposed to be a better example? I find their homepage horrible. "Dropbox is a modern workspace" "Keep everything organized without breaking your flow" I don't understand why these companies feel the need to describe their services in this way.
  • callalex 8y ago
    Because valuation of a software company doesn't come from the products they offer, nor the current user base with credit cards on file. It comes from a perceived potential growth/platform/network effect so all of these companies have to pretend that they will someday be a panopticon that commands your entire life in order to keep that sweet VC money flowing in even if they just repackage s3 with a nice client.
    • rrdharan 8y ago
      Neither Dropbox nor Google is particularly concerned with courting VC money.
      • callalex 8y ago
        You're right. I should have just said "investor money"
    • golergka 8y ago
      But that's a customer landing page, not "investors" page
  • bunnycorn 8y ago
    And then? People know what Dropbox is, and people that don't know what Dropbox is, probably aren't going to buy Dropbox. People don't land on Dropbox.com by chance. In fact, when describing GDrive ir iCloud Drive or OneDrive, people say "it's like Dropbox".
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• therealdrag0 8y ago
  Woah. I clicked the link and was logged in already. I'm sure I logged in on this computer (work) at some point, but I'm disappointed that session didn't expire. I can't remember the last time I logged into dropbox here, it feels like months!