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My biggest question when seeing this headline was "why?" > It does make sense for Dropbox to enter the password manager market, considering that many existing
by dangoor 6y ago
My biggest question when seeing this headline was "why?"
> It does make sense for Dropbox to enter the password manager market, considering that many existing passwords already use Dropbox as a cloud option to sync data between devices.
I disagree with this. Dropbox is a file syncing service. The statement above is like "people use Dropbox already to share work-in-progress designs, so it makes sense for Dropbox to make a Photoshop competitor." Or, stretching it farther, "People want their email to be available on all devices, so it makes sense for Dropbox to get into the email service business."
Password managers today are quite good. I'm sure Dropbox is big enough to create a competitive password manager, but is that really the best bet? Put another way: I wonder what it is that Dropbox thinks they can bring to this space?
- mmargerum 6y agoPresumably the hardest part of managing passwords is the end to end encryption which they have already solved. The sync is done too. they can simply use their sync engine to keep passwords up to date between devices? Would be a great value add to the service as I pay for 1password currently.