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Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by dahdum » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

B1FF_PSUVM wrote: post #4

Does anyone here still use Dropbox? (I signed up in 2009, and probably last touched it in 2011 ...) P.S. their studiously ignoring user-side encryption was a factor - if I'm getting my files exposed, might as well go with the big default services.

I regularly use 5 computers spread across 3 locations, as well as 3 mobile devices. Dropbox is quite handy to sync files across all of them.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by bsharitt » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

Being the one cloud service that sync across Linux, Windows, OS X with a native client, Dropbox is the service I'd like to give money for about 100GB of space for a couple of bucks a month, but I just don't need 1TB for $10 a month. So instead I use Google and wait in vain for a native Linux client that's probably never coming.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 8:53 PM UTC

B1FF_PSUVM wrote: post #4

Does anyone here still use Dropbox? (I signed up in 2009, and probably last touched it in 2011 ...) P.S. their studiously ignoring user-side encryption was a factor - if I'm getting my files exposed, might as well go with the big default services.

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Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC

I've always wondered why BOX did their IPO before Dropbox. I know Box is two years older but it seems like age is only a relative determinant in IPO timing (FB IPO at 8 years, Google 6 years...).

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by anonova » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:02 PM UTC

B1FF_PSUVM wrote: post #4

Does anyone here still use Dropbox? (I signed up in 2009, and probably last touched it in 2011 ...) P.S. their studiously ignoring user-side encryption was a factor - if I'm getting my files exposed, might as well go with the big default services.

I still use it, but I'll likely switch once they disable the public folder.[1] It's the sole reason I use Dropbox.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by verelo » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:02 PM UTC

curiousDog wrote: post #3

Dropbox is one of those products that is just a pleasure to use (like Stripe). Sync works seamlessly. I've tried all other alternatives and gotten back to being a paid customer of Dropbox. I think it also boils down to most of your employees being passionate, smart folks from MIT, CMU and the like. Good luck to them with the IPO.

People say this, but i actually hate it. Every time i use it i get confused, it's UI is slow and weird. I prefer Google Drive, but I might be a weird user.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by hellofunk » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:06 PM UTC

I've been using Dropbox as a real handy remote git host using the fantastic git-remote-dropbox utility. It's really great to create a remote repo right from the command line and immediately push to it without the hassle of going to a site like GH or BB and setting up the repo first and all that jazz. Make DB worth the money I spend (and unlimited private repos, of course, and with easy sharing by many developers with Dropbox's shared folders).

https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by Florin_Andrei » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:11 PM UTC

chollida1 wrote: post #2

I talked to a friend just before Christmas whose firm made a good portion of their returns on the insight that VC firms, IPO participants and the market in general all have gaps in how they evaluate the worth of a company and the fact that this gap has grown significantly in the past 5 years. Previously, companies went public much sooner and you could expect a match, not an exact one, but in the same ball park, betwe…

> the VC's get paid, but its the IPO participants and the employee's who get screwed

How unsurprising.

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by orthoganol » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

curiousDog wrote: post #3

Dropbox is one of those products that is just a pleasure to use (like Stripe). Sync works seamlessly. I've tried all other alternatives and gotten back to being a paid customer of Dropbox. I think it also boils down to most of your employees being passionate, smart folks from MIT, CMU and the like. Good luck to them with the IPO.

I passed when I learned that in order to sync target directories they all had to be moved and live under the /Dropbox namespace, and that I would now be working within that namespace for my various projects. No thanks. That was a while ago - maybe they are different now?

Re: Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

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Post by ceejayoz » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

verelo wrote: post #16

curiousDog wrote: post #3

Dropbox is one of those products that is just a pleasure to use (like Stripe). Sync works seamlessly. I've tried all other alternatives and gotten back to being a paid customer of Dropbox. I think it also boils down to most of your employees being passionate, smart folks from MIT, CMU and the like. Good luck to them with the IPO.

People say this, but i actually hate it. Every time i use it i get confused, it's UI is slow and weird. I prefer Google Drive, but I might be a weird user.

Why are you using the web UI? Dropbox is at its best as just a folder on your hard drive that works like any other, except it effectively exists simultaneously on all your devices.