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Why Dropbox is so popular
- dshankar 16y agoSummarized: Dropbox was a KISS product.
- farumm 16y agoyep true, dropbox is a superb product...!
- ggchappell 16y agoThe (current) top answer, by Michael Wolfe, is certainly a good one, but it's just begging for additional comment. So: > No, shut up. People don't use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs. That's what I want. And I have indeed been using Dropbox for some time. But it has been my experience that the great majority of people out there really don't understand folders. So I have to wonder .... > Not a single person on Earth wakes up in the morning worried about deriving more value from their Windows Live login. Indeed. And this principle is much more widely applicable. So while people at Company X spend their days thinking, "How can we show customers how they can derive more value from their relationship with us?" not one single customer is thinking, "How can I derive more value from my relationship with Company X?" > why not leverage the full power of the web? With HTML 5 you can drag and drop files, you can build intergalactic dashboards of stats showing how much storage you are using, you can publish your files as RSS feeds and tweets, and you can add your company logo! Dropbox actually does a big chunk of that. > Most of the world doesn't sit in front of their browser all day. Not sure about that one. It's literally true, of course. Most of the people in the world use computers only a little or not at all. But those of us who do use them a lot, seem to spend a great deal of time using web browsers.