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A possible first step towards matching the broad ecosystem of their new chief competitors, Google Drive and Microsoft Skydrive. I wouldn't be at all surprised t
by gilrain 14y ago
A possible first step towards matching the broad ecosystem of their new chief competitors, Google Drive and Microsoft Skydrive. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them acquire an office app suite next.
- ishansharma 14y agoAre there any viable competitors to Google Docs err Drive and MS Office? Office is the feature powerhouse and Drive is lean and fast service, I haven't seen anything that can be acquired around!
- jmduke 14y agoI don't find Drive to be particularly lean/fast -- it's been easier for me and my peers to work on content/formatting on Word than email it; Drive's lack of features is certainly not a proxy for being lightweight. Drive's killer feature, though, is collaboration.
- mkr-hn 14y agoThere's Zoho, but it's big enough to where it probably won't accept an acquisition.
- mikecarlucci 14y agoThere are so many options once Dropbox can theoritcally be accessed through an inbox interface... Mailbox could be a first step to competing with Messages/gChat. Instead of rolling out their own email, Dropbox can be another type of account Mailbox works with to send pictures, videos, files over data rather than texting or emailing. An odd feature to roll out without acquiring a popular product, but making Dropbox the goto rather than the link attached to something else.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoWhy should Dropbox have a message client (or email client). I fail to see how they are connected. I feel the same about Twitter launching a music service. There used to be the joke that every software expands until it can read mail. Nowadays I think we need a new saying. Every software company expands until... it has rebuilt every other software product (not as catchy).
- mr_luc 14y agoHow about: "Every software company expands until it has implemented half of Emacs." Sort of a product-centric version of Greenspun's rule.
- mikecarlucci 14y agoNot messaging per-se exactly, but making Dropbox an account that could be accessed through Mailbox. The standalone messaging without sending a file as well is just a wacky idea of a different direction Dropbox could decide to take things.