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I think the reality is between Apple, Google, and Microsoft, their core feature is being given away for free or packaged with existing devices that ppl are buyi
by azinman2 6y ago
I think the reality is between Apple, Google, and Microsoft, their core feature is being given away for free or packaged with existing devices that ppl are buying anyway. Then they’re further integrated into those services. This is on top of a move away from files towards mobile and cloud computing, in addition to hitting a wall with consumers who want/need a Dropbox client and at the prices Dropbox sets. They have to have the business users to sustain themselves, and those business users want collaboration tools as a differentiator to not jump ship.
Dropbox is in a bad spot, I think in part because they haven’t focused deeply enough on real collaboration tools or other related product spaces.
- ramraj07 6y agoI will never ever trust my most important files to companies for whom storage is not even their fifth most important concern. Dropbox will be my primary storage solution for that reason for the foreseeable future unless the fuck up real bad.
- shajznnckfke 6y agoThis way of thinking doesn’t quite make sense to me. Since those companies are huge, they could within them contain an organization that has more resources than Dropbox dedicated to storage. This organization will be completely focused on that goal. What if some company buys Dropbox?