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>> "Also - I love dropbox as much as anyone, but do they have the numbers to justify a 10B valuation?" I don't know but I am always surprised at the people I h

>> "Also - I love dropbox as much as anyone, but do they have the numbers to justify a 10B valuation?" I don't know but I am always surprised at the people I hear using Dropbox. I always look at it as a techie kind of service but most non-geek business people I interact with use it to share files, family members use it to store photos etc.

mcintyre1994 13y ago
At least in the UK, they've been partnering with mobile carriers (at least Three) to pre-install their app. They sold my dad on Dropbox through Three about 3-4 years ago now, it's pretty genius because mobile sales people love to talk about special extras and an actually useful preinstalled app is pretty rare. It's some great user acquisition, but he's not a customer and actually I don't know anybody who is.
- byoung2 13y ago
  Most Samsung Android devices come with Dropbox installed, and you get 50GB free for 2 years. With auto-upload of pictures and video, it is a great way to get people hooked. When those 2 years run out, and you have 10s of GB of pictures and videos already stored in Dropbox, $10 will be a small price to pay to keep it there.
dhoulb 13y ago
I make it a required purchase for family members now. On any new computer, the first thing I do is symlink the desktop and the documents folder to Dropbox. That way, I never get support queries from family members wondering where they put something, and it's almost impossible for them to save something in a location that's not backed up. And the backup is immediate and automatic. It's pretty perfect. If you've got two or more computers, everything's the same everywhere, and you can get to any file on your computer from the cloud. I know some of this, cloud sync, cloud backup, and cloud access, is possible through combinations of other software, but Dropbox packages it all so well. I don't think it's just for geeks any more.
- XorNot 13y ago
  Dropbox have the ease-of-use thing down as far as syncing goes at the moment, even though I personally don't like it. It's another service that's in the weird space for me where I can't be bothered with it personally, but immediately recommend it to just about everyone else.
- grey-area 13y ago
  So all your family's financial and personal docs are on Dropbox? You'd better hope they are never hacked.

mcintyre1994 13y ago

At least in the UK, they've been partnering with mobile carriers (at least Three) to pre-install their app. They sold my dad on Dropbox through Three about 3-4 years ago now, it's pretty genius because mobile sales people love to talk about special extras and an actually useful preinstalled app is pretty rare. It's some great user acquisition, but he's not a customer and actually I don't know anybody who is.

byoung2 13y ago
Most Samsung Android devices come with Dropbox installed, and you get 50GB free for 2 years. With auto-upload of pictures and video, it is a great way to get people hooked. When those 2 years run out, and you have 10s of GB of pictures and videos already stored in Dropbox, $10 will be a small price to pay to keep it there.

dhoulb 13y ago

I make it a required purchase for family members now. On any new computer, the first thing I do is symlink the desktop and the documents folder to Dropbox. That way, I never get support queries from family members wondering where they put something, and it's almost impossible for them to save something in a location that's not backed up. And the backup is immediate and automatic. It's pretty perfect. If you've got two or more computers, everything's the same everywhere, and you can get to any file on your computer from the cloud. I know some of this, cloud sync, cloud backup, and cloud access, is possible through combinations of other software, but Dropbox packages it all so well. I don't think it's just for geeks any more.

XorNot 13y ago
Dropbox have the ease-of-use thing down as far as syncing goes at the moment, even though I personally don't like it. It's another service that's in the weird space for me where I can't be bothered with it personally, but immediately recommend it to just about everyone else.
grey-area 13y ago
So all your family's financial and personal docs are on Dropbox? You'd better hope they are never hacked.