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Dropbox is so much more than a different pricing model though. i just think of the hundreds of insanely non-technical people i know who say to me "wow, dropbox
by rubyrescue 16y ago
Dropbox is so much more than a different pricing model though. i just think of the hundreds of insanely non-technical people i know who say to me "wow, dropbox changed my life". how many non-technical people say that about s3?
<edit since i can't reply below - it could have been built on something other than s3 - its the user experience that makes Dropbox so compelling>
- tybris 16y agoUhm. S3 enabled Dropbox. By definition, it changed the world more than Dropbox.
- archenemy 16y agoI don't think so. Bear with me as the analogy is not all the way there, but small nuclear 'pebble' reactors already exist. Not that much people care... BUT the company that makes them available to the masses cheap and safely will change the world.
- dasil003 16y agoThis is trivially wrong unless somehow you think Dropbox is simply a thin UI layer over S3. Which, if you really do think that, is the type of dismissive attitude that armchair Web 2.0 pundits like to spout off without any clue what goes into building a good user experience.
- Legion 16y agoThat makes sense. We should rewrite the history books to reframe everything as the achievements of carbon.