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Consumers will.
by Thrymr 14y ago
Consumers will.
- rsync 14y agoDisagree. As we continue to travel up (down ?) the layers of abstraction from actual files in a filesystem to "pipes between dropbox and box.net[1]" it will be more and more difficult to maintain any bearing on what is yours, where it's at, and how to use it. Fast forward a few years from now when half of these players no longer exist, the other half have either been absorbed ("Dell Home Storage, powered by DropBox!") or have "pivoted" because they never made money in the first place (you know damned well that someone inside of dropbox is scheming up some "social" integration on a whiteboard). The consumer, who circa 2012 has been deemed too stupid to even understand a folder, will lose. [1] Whatever that means ...
- mey 14y agoAgree Increased competition for a commodity will decrease prices for the consumer.
- duaneb 14y agoOr, we could end up with many different services with similar-yet-ultimately-disparate feature sets that people just give up. The consumer wins when she can use competing products together without jumping through hoops - Someone mails a word document, she saves it to Dropbox, and opens it with Pages on her iPad. We need open standards and competing implementations. It's an absolute mess right now.
- mey 14y agohttp://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/