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Indeed. Competition on this market space is almost guaranteed to be a race to the bottom. Dropbox will have to respond by concentrating on features to set itsel

• rgraham 15y ago
  They should concentrate on making users really happy. Features may or may not figure in there. It would be pretty tough to compete with an over 10,000 engineer company with incredible building blocks on features.
  • dorkitude 15y ago
    That headcount is part of the reason it's easier to compete with Google. The design of the Google organization rewards micro-optimizations (use data for every decision, or else your ass isn't covered) and risk-aversion (set low KPI's and game them to get the biggest bonus each quarter). By contrast, the design of the innovation space in general rewards peak-jumping, risk-taking, and a healthy blend of intuition and data. And it already selected Dropbox. Don't get me wrong, the (layers and layers of) leadership at Google want to make killer products. But at the level of the lowly implementer, not only is making killer products only a peripheral concern, but those who can and want to make killer products tend to self-select out of Google.
• AJ007 15y ago
  I can think of one huge feature: not giving all your personal data to the same company.