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I think they have a pretty broad-base and google entering the market validates the business model. Though, their prices might drop a bit.
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Completely agreed. Right now the most requested feature is "watch any folder". It received the most upvotes by a great margin (30%). And it was suggested 2 years ago. Yet there is no indication of development at all on that front (or any other for that matter.) I really like Dropbox, but seriously will look into GDrive too.
"Watch any folder" would greatly clutter the beautiful ui and conceptual model.
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The price of Google App Engine looked dirt cheap too.
And then what happened?
And they did this with an execution model of only giving a single request at a time to a process.
So a process taking half a second to make a query or poll a url is suddenly getting a massive price hike.
Edit: on the other hand a fresh search is suggesting that python 2.7 and with it concurrent requests are coming in a couple months
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And then what happened?
They changed a significant charge from CPU time to wall time. And they did this with an execution model of only giving a single request at a time to a process. So a process taking half a second to make a query or poll a url is suddenly getting a massive price hike. Edit: on the other hand a fresh search is suggesting that python 2.7 and with it concurrent requests are coming in a couple months
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You lost me. MS put out a product for free that was competing with other products for free. Are you really saying that is the situation here?
Netscape initially charged for the browser. "Netscape Navigator was not free to the general public until January 1998" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
I think they were doing "free for noncommercial uses" license because most of the people I knew then I wouldn't consider a software pirate.
When I was in YC (same batch as Dropbox) this was a constant question. "What happens to Dropbox if Gdrive launches?" I don't actually remember what Drew and Arash thought, but a lot of people speculated on it. It was probably a real threat to them 4.5 years ago. I can't imagine it is now. Dropbox has a large, happy fanbase that's going to keep using it and keep spreading. They're going to keep growing. They've got a…
FWIW, one of the reasons I like having a non Google service to hold some important files is in case I hit the Google black swan and get locked out of my gmail account. (I also backup my email regularly.) While integration would probably be convenient, I need to be able to keep working if I do get locked out.
When I was in YC (same batch as Dropbox) this was a constant question. "What happens to Dropbox if Gdrive launches?" I don't actually remember what Drew and Arash thought, but a lot of people speculated on it. It was probably a real threat to them 4.5 years ago. I can't imagine it is now. Dropbox has a large, happy fanbase that's going to keep using it and keep spreading. They're going to keep growing. They've got a…
Google is known for getting minimalism which is the most important UI element.
> the annoyance of having to upload a large amount of files to another service.
I imagine you'd just enter your Dropbox password into a migration form and have everything seamlessly pulled in. In fact, Google might even let you sync back, but Dropbox could add it easily it if not. By nature these services have to inter-operate.
When I was in YC (same batch as Dropbox) this was a constant question. "What happens to Dropbox if Gdrive launches?" I don't actually remember what Drew and Arash thought, but a lot of people speculated on it. It was probably a real threat to them 4.5 years ago. I can't imagine it is now. Dropbox has a large, happy fanbase that's going to keep using it and keep spreading. They're going to keep growing. They've got a…
Simplicity and transparency (from where I'm standing) seem like the things that helped Dropbox proliferate - no fuss, just a directory that syncs, but it also means they have no way to monetize their service (they haven't made a dime from me yet) and they provide no added value.
Now, consider my case. I don't even have to remove the Dropbox client. The folder is already mirrored on my computer, when I install the next version of Ubuntu I have to explicitly add the PPA and install the proprietary Nautilus extension. If I don't do that, I can just drag the folder to another service. At some point it's easier to quit than to continue using it, which is why I predict Dropbox is fucked once Google provides the same transparent syncing with added value of its services.
Look how pathetic Google Talk desktop client is.
Is the Google Talk client really complex piece of VC++ shit that Google can't spare some decent develope from tens of throusands of genius employees?