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They should have sold to Apple when they had the chance. It's funny that they didn't have enough foresight to see that large players like Google would amass the
by codesushi42 11y ago
They should have sold to Apple when they had the chance. It's funny that they didn't have enough foresight to see that large players like Google would amass the infrastructure to easily out compete them. And that infrastructure came for free from Google scaling out other efforts.
Online storage is such a commodity now. They've got nowhere to go but down, unless they can offer a really innovative solution that offers more than file storage. Otherwise their interface just seems really dated now and their mobile apps are terrible.
- pen2l 11y agoWait, Apple made an offer to acquire them? I was not aware of that. Anyway, I'm also surprised by the series of very bad moves of all sorts by the Dropbox crew. They're focusing on various areas these days which to my understanding just spells dead end, like being a place for photo storage (competing with Flickr), etc. They lost any good will they had built by having Rice on board, and then sticking with that decision even after seeing the bad reception. It's surprising because I thought Drew Houston et al. were very strategically smart folks who couldn't make these types of mistakes.
- codesushi42 11y agohttp://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-said-no-to-nine-digits-acquisition-offer-from-apple-steve-jobs/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-said-no-to-nine-dig...
- bane 11y agoJust think about this: Google (within the scope of photos) has given every person unlimited photo storage. That's how much cloud storage is worth...nothing.
- j_s 11y agoAlso worth mentioning Amazon Prime Photos here, even though it requires a Prime membership.
- scholia 11y agoAmazon Prime and Flickr are both better for storing photos, and I expect imgur is as well (I've not used it for that). I'm already far too dependent on Google to willingly give them anything I don't have to, especially when there are better alternatives.
- scholia 11y agoLOL for the downvote ;-)
- olefoo 11y agoBut it's only unlimited if you allow them to manage the compression; if you want to manage the files yourself ( the "originals" ) you're constrained as to storage on both Amazon and Google.
- bane 11y agoThink about this then, for a specific type of computation (image compression) Google is also saying compute resources cost nothing.
- abcdefghijkl 11y agoI saw that they're opening new offices and was interested in applying there, would you say it's a good idea to work at Dropbox or would it be too unstable?