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Originally they weren't competing. ZumoDrive evolved out of Versionate. Even now there are significant differences in the way the two work. They should be able
by pg 18y ago
Originally they weren't competing. ZumoDrive evolved out of Versionate. Even now there are significant differences in the way the two work. They should be able to both succeed.
- wensing 18y agoWill those significant differences be obvious to the consumer?
- pg 18y agoI would expect so in this case, because they'll cause the two startups to market their services differently.
- nailer 18y agoHave you encouraged them to join? Dropbox has more customers and awareness. Zumodrive has better technology. They'd be stronger together than apart.
- pxlpshr 18y agoHmmm, I'd like to see a formal comparison of the two. I haven't used zumodrive but I'm soooooo impressed with Dropbox. It's amazing. I know this is against the grain, but Dropbox replaced SVN for our development projects. It's a lot easier for designers to use... SVN is too tedious.
- andreyf 18y agoI haven't used zumodrive but I'm soooooo impressed with Dropbox. One fundamental difference is that Dropbox syncs things between drives and cloud. Zumodrive only uses your local machine as cache. The difference is when you have 20 gigs in the service, a Zumodrive doesn't actually use up any of your HD space. On the other hand, you don't have to be connected to the internet to see/edit your Dropbox files, only to sync.
- sunilbhargava 18y agoWhile is it true that Zumodrive by default uses local storage as a cache, if you have enough space you can set it to keep everything local.
- albertni 18y agoWhat makes you think it would make sense for two small startups to just "join", especially in this space, where it's not like you can just plug the technology of one into the other.
- nailer 18y agoWhat makes you think they can't? They have the same target audience, some of the same investors, and are working on the same problem - universal access to one's files. I'd: * Rebrand Zumodrive as a future version of Dropbox * Use Dropbox's syncing model to ensure the local cache is kept up to date to a user-configurable percentage. This would allow speedy access where the local device has the space, and still allow access where the local device doesn't have the space.