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Steve Jobs was right >And so he started trolling us a little bit, saying we’re a feature, not a product, and telling us a bunch of things like that we don’t co
by nojito 4y ago
Steve Jobs was right
>And so he started trolling us a little bit, saying we’re a feature, not a product, and telling us a bunch of things like that we don’t control an operating system so we’re going to be disadvantaged, we’re going to have to figure out distribution deals, which are risky, and sort of a bunch of business-plan critiques. But then he was like, ‘Alright, well I guess we’re gonna have to go kill you, basically.’ Maybe not in those words, but pretty close.
- Uehreka 4y agoHe was right, but he was also years early. It took Apple 5-ish years after that (I’m assuming this conversation was around 2009) to ship iCloud Drive, and then some more years to add things like shared folders (it took them two tries I think). By that point Dropbox was down the Enterprise Hole, but a 10-ish year run isn’t bad for a product, many great products or product categories have had shorter lifetimes.