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Dropbox fills that niche of people that don't want robots trawling through their files so they can figure out what viagra or underwater mortgage refinancing ads

Dropbox fills that niche of people that don't want robots trawling through their files so they can figure out what viagra or underwater mortgage refinancing ads to display, though. :) Anyway, I think you are wrong. There are plenty of people not comfortable with storing their data on Google for a myriad of reasons so I don't think this has effectively shut down the online storage market.

recuter 13y ago
Privacy concerns outside our echo chamber are not such a big deal as you imply. To wit, the hundreds of millions of Gmail and Facebook users - I should think the amount of people who are aware of this issue AND care enough to vote with their wallet is negligible. (Not to mention that Dropbox or cloud anything is hardly better, it came out recently that Dropbox employees can look at your files just like Facebook employees can glance at your profile)
- BrianEatWorld 13y ago
  I think that even ignoring privacy concerns, theres a quality difference between Dropbox and Google that Google is currently losing. Our team is only 10 employees, distributed across two offices, but the number of times that I have seen email attachments for docs that were supposed to be synced in Drive multiple hours ago isn't trivial and has led to most of the team returning to Dropbox despite the space limitations. As is, if a doc isn't created in the Google environment (Google Docs, Calendar, etc.) then it will reside in Dropbox.
- dinkumthinkum 13y ago
  You say that but yet Microsoft has created a whole marketing campaign around this. It's a humorous to think no one really cares about privacy. I think that is more the kind of attitude in our echo chamber than the other (that no one really cares about privacy).
gillianseed 13y ago
There will always be alternatives which you pay hard cash for, but if you want 'free' services you most likely end up paying through advertising. The majority of people seem to find their internet habits being sold as a data point to advertisers and getting targeted ads is an ok 'price to pay' for gmail/outlook/google drive/skydrive/dropbox etc et al. Again if you don't like this deal there is always someone willing to take your money in exchange for such priviledge.

recuter 13y ago

Privacy concerns outside our echo chamber are not such a big deal as you imply. To wit, the hundreds of millions of Gmail and Facebook users - I should think the amount of people who are aware of this issue AND care enough to vote with their wallet is negligible. (Not to mention that Dropbox or cloud anything is hardly better, it came out recently that Dropbox employees can look at your files just like Facebook employees can glance at your profile)

BrianEatWorld 13y ago
I think that even ignoring privacy concerns, theres a quality difference between Dropbox and Google that Google is currently losing. Our team is only 10 employees, distributed across two offices, but the number of times that I have seen email attachments for docs that were supposed to be synced in Drive multiple hours ago isn't trivial and has led to most of the team returning to Dropbox despite the space limitations. As is, if a doc isn't created in the Google environment (Google Docs, Calendar, etc.) then it will reside in Dropbox.
dinkumthinkum 13y ago
You say that but yet Microsoft has created a whole marketing campaign around this. It's a humorous to think no one really cares about privacy. I think that is more the kind of attitude in our echo chamber than the other (that no one really cares about privacy).

gillianseed 13y ago

There will always be alternatives which you pay hard cash for, but if you want 'free' services you most likely end up paying through advertising. The majority of people seem to find their internet habits being sold as a data point to advertisers and getting targeted ads is an ok 'price to pay' for gmail/outlook/google drive/skydrive/dropbox etc et al. Again if you don't like this deal there is always someone willing to take your money in exchange for such priviledge.