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Dropbox also completely lost the market they invented to Box, largely because of nontechnical considerations.
by ForHackernews 4y ago
Dropbox also completely lost the market they invented to Box, largely because of nontechnical considerations.
- scarface74 4y agoAs Steve Jobs said, DropBox was always going to end up being a feature not a product. For the same price you pay for DropBox, you can get the complete Office 365 with 5 TB of storage for five people or GSuite with storage.
- dilyevsky 4y agoImo that quote only ever made sense when you add "[compared to apple]" which was likely how he meant it. Also have you tried actually using gsuite storage?
- scarface74 4y agoI think it makes more sense when it comes to Microsoft Office365. I wouldn’t use Google anything for something I depend on.
- 1123581321 4y agoDropbox has about twice the revenue of Box. Box was founded a couple of years before Dropbox. However, both only have a small share of the value of consumer and commercial cloud storage at this point.
- dilyevsky 4y agoWhen i talked to dropbox folks like 5 years ago they scoffed at box only being a third of their revenue. Sounds like they’re closing the gap