Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox
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Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox
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#2>It’s going to do something better: release an API and become a platform.
Isn't that what Amazon S3 already is?
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#3I don't know if I like the idea of a "Dropbox V2" that directly uses your separately-purchased Cloud Drive storage. I use Dropbox for portable backups of a few small but important files (my resume, todo lists, school assignments, etc.). How would this proposed Dropbox work? Would it just put a separate Dropbox folder in your Cloud Drive, separate from your music or whatever else you put directly into Cloud Drive? Or would you purchase Dropbox and then use all of your Cloud Drive for Dropbox? I think it would be weird to use Dropbox for all your music/photos/videos.
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#4I wouldn’t be surprised if a version of Dropbox that plays nicely with the Cloud Drive is one of the first Cloud Drive apps on the scene. It makes a great deal of sense. Instead of paying Dropbox for storage and syncing, we could just pay them for syncing.
It seems rather unlikely to me that people would pay dropbox for their syncing service to store things on someone else's paid storage. I would think that the dropbox software exists to drive people to their relatively high margin de-duplicated cloud storage subscriptions.
In a similar fashion it seems likely to me that Cloud Drive exists to drive adoption & volume to Amazon digital music, a market that dwarfs the size of the online storage game.
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#5This article is kind of backwards to me. Dropbox has an API, and Amazon didn't release one with their Cloud Drive.
It's also kind of silly to say that Amazon has mastered storage, but give Dropbox no credit. They obviously have data storage as a core technology.
Syncing isn't that valuable to me as a technology. Dropbox didn't invent it. They borrowed it from elsewhere and Amazon could do the same if they wanted to.
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#6If Dropbox has picture viewer, why can't it have audio player?
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#7If Dropbox has picture viewer, why can't it have audio player?
They don't want to make the music industry mad is my guess, same for video and movies.
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#8>It’s going to do something better: release an API and become a platform. Isn't that what Amazon S3 already is?
Somebody should create a simple little app on top of S3 that runs on all your devices and creates an automatically synced folder. They should make it free for the first couple GB too.
Then Cloud Drive would seem kind of lame.
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#10I don't know if I like the idea of a "Dropbox V2" that directly uses your separately-purchased Cloud Drive storage. I use Dropbox for portable backups of a few small but important files (my resume, todo lists, school assignments, etc.). How would this proposed Dropbox work? Would it just put a separate Dropbox folder in your Cloud Drive, separate from your music or whatever else you put directly into Cloud Drive? Or…
I know several people who keep their iTunes Music folder on Dropbox so they can use iTunes/sync iDevices across multiple machines.