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This feels like the “we’re all dead in the long run” version of right.
by aero142 7y ago
This feels like the “we’re all dead in the long run” version of right.
- EpicEng 7y agoI don't think so. He specifically called out the fact that their entire product is eventually going to be a single feature in every consumer OS. And now it is. That hardly applies to every product/service out there.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThe problem here is that the biggest value of that product is that there is one of it. We have three major desktop OSes and two major phone OSes, people have multiple devices - usually at least one running a desktop OS and one running a mobile OS. File syncing as an OS feature has significantly less utility, because OS vendors can't get their shit together and agree on a standard, cross-platform solution. This is very much a "we're all dead in the end" observation. Any good enough product is gonna get killed by turning it into multiple instances of mutually incompatible features, in a war for market share that claims user's time and patience as collateral damage.
- EpicEng 7y ago>We have three major desktop OSes and two major phone OSes, people have multiple devices - usually at least one running a desktop OS and one running a mobile OS. Sure... Kinda. How many people spend a lot of time on desktop these days? I see two large camps; windows + Android and... Well, Mac (e.g. iPad + iPhone). Those combos already work (MS client runs on android.) How many people run android + iPad/MacBook, windows + iPhone, or Linux? I imagine not too many, which is perhaps why DB is so focused on Enterprise.