The fact that people think Dropbox is so vulnerable tells me how secure they really are as a leader in this space. Let me explain. Dropbox works so beautifully

The fact that people think Dropbox is so vulnerable tells me how secure they really are as a leader in this space. Let me explain. Dropbox works so beautifully and transparently that people mistakenly assume that what they are doing must be easy. (Netflix suffers / benefits from a similar fallacy with respect to streaming.) In reality, distributed storage and sync is quite a challenging engineering problem, which Dropbox has about a 10 year jump on solving. There is a notorious surfeit of brilliant engineers at Google, but have you actually used Google Drive? I tried it when it came out and it crashed at least once a day. Maybe it's gotten better since, but so has Dropbox. Overcoming these technical deficits is really hard and expensive (just look at Apple Maps) and often painful for the end user. I wouldn't write Dropbox off just yet. Also, with the forthcoming IPO it's conceivable that they will start to build out their own data centers.