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The real strength of Dropbox comes from the ecosystem of apps that use dropbox to store data. It is hard for newcomers to challenge that network effect. But com
by caruber 13y ago
The real strength of Dropbox comes from the ecosystem of apps that use dropbox to store data. It is hard for newcomers to challenge that network effect. But competitors like Tonido are doing interesting stuff by focusing on the security, privacy and the private aspects of owning your own cloud. If they are able to change the narrative from utility to trust and security then newcomers have a fighting chance.
Finally it comes to what wins the customers: Trust or Utility or the Balanced of Both.
- minimaxir 13y agoOut of curiosity, how many new apps use the Dropbox API, or the new Data Storage API? I haven't heard much on that front.
- clarky07 13y agoI have no idea how many use it, but I've implemented it in one of my apps and it is pretty fantastic. I plan to use it in more in the future.
- daniel_levine 13y agolet us know if we can help!
- dunham 13y agoDoes it work offline at all? I took a brief look at the API, and it seemed like any time you wanted to make a change to the data it needed to talk to the server.
- clarky07 13y agoIt makes the changes locally, and then syncs when you get a connection later.
- lotso 13y agoWhich apps are using Dropbox to store data?
- caruber 13y agoASFAIK 1Password, GoodReader, BoxyTunes, QuickOffice and tons of file managers in Android
- sp332 13y agocaruber answered your question, but for some reason the answer is dead. ASFAIK 1Password, GoodReader, BoxyTunes, QuickOffice and tons of file managers in Android
- simonw 13y agoTons of mobile apps do this. 1password is probably the best example, but just the other day I decided I wanted to be able to view a Sketchup file on my phone and the app I found ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sightspace-free-d/id567219670?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sightspace-free-d/id56721967... ) had the option to load files from Dropbox.
- clarky07 13y agoI have it in several of my apps, Lister 2 and Ez Budget. It's fantastic for syncing over multiple devices.
- CJefferson 13y agoMy comic book reader uses Dropbox to sync, my todo program uses Dropbox to read my todo.txt, I use Dropsync to do 2-way syncing between a directory on my phone and my computers mainly so I can drop reciepts + other PDFs into a directory on my computer and get them from my phone, tablet or other PCs. I could go and replace all of these with another tool, but I would have to have a compelling reason to do so and would probably have to find some new apps (or the apps I use would have to integrate a new service)