Dropbox introduces new API features
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Dropbox introduces new API features
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Re: Dropbox introduces new API features
#2Can anyone who uses the Dropbox API tell me if these features are significant?
From my .Net developer's point of view, I am not seeing why these aren't just weak versions of the Azure storage capabilities or Amazon's S3. It's nice to be able to target DropBox as a storage location but that's a pretty rare use-case for me. Especially since their security store is incomplete.
Re: Dropbox introduces new API features
#3Can anyone who uses the Dropbox API tell me if these features are significant? From my .Net developer's point of view, I am not seeing why these aren't just weak versions of the Azure storage capabilities or Amazon's S3. It's nice to be able to target DropBox as a storage location but that's a pretty rare use-case for me. Especially since their security store is incomplete.
Well, from a quick look at the Datastore API, they provide conflict resolution and offline support, which are pretty big if you're working on a mobile application.
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#4"[...] over 175 million people using Dropbox and more than a billion files synced each day"
Assuming that the "1 billion" refers to number of sync events, that statistic implies that on average, Dropbox users only make changes to ~6 files in their Dropbox per day.
That doesn't make any sense at all. Dropbox must have a massive Power Law at work.
EDIT: I might be wrong with my interpretation of "files synced": it could mean distinct numbers of files that receive a sync event atleast once per day or files added per day to a Dropbox which are then synced. In both cases, I believe the ~6/day statistic and I apologize.
Re: Dropbox introduces new API features
#5Can anyone who uses the Dropbox API tell me if these features are significant? From my .Net developer's point of view, I am not seeing why these aren't just weak versions of the Azure storage capabilities or Amazon's S3. It's nice to be able to target DropBox as a storage location but that's a pretty rare use-case for me. Especially since their security store is incomplete.
It's a step toward evolution: Dropbox becoming a platform and not just a cloudy app. I wonder, though, about the amount of storage available at the free level -- is it enough to support a true platform?
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#6"[...] over 175 million people using Dropbox and more than a billion files synced each day" Assuming that the "1 billion" refers to number of sync events, that statistic implies that on average, Dropbox users only make changes to ~6 files in their Dropbox per day. That doesn't make any sense at all. Dropbox must have a massive Power Law at work. EDIT: I might be wrong with my interpretation of "files synced": it coul…
Does 6 seem high or low to you?
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#7"[...] over 175 million people using Dropbox and more than a billion files synced each day" Assuming that the "1 billion" refers to number of sync events, that statistic implies that on average, Dropbox users only make changes to ~6 files in their Dropbox per day. That doesn't make any sense at all. Dropbox must have a massive Power Law at work. EDIT: I might be wrong with my interpretation of "files synced": it coul…
If you consider a "file sync" event as a single file being pulled to a single device, it could be 1 file to 6 devices per day which seems a lot more realistic to me. Especially when you consider teams that are probably syncing files across tens of devices multiple times per day.
Re: Dropbox introduces new API features
#8"[...] over 175 million people using Dropbox and more than a billion files synced each day" Assuming that the "1 billion" refers to number of sync events, that statistic implies that on average, Dropbox users only make changes to ~6 files in their Dropbox per day. That doesn't make any sense at all. Dropbox must have a massive Power Law at work. EDIT: I might be wrong with my interpretation of "files synced": it coul…
> that statistic implies that on average, Dropbox users only make changes to ~6 files in their Dropbox per day.
I believe it. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I usually only write to a few files from Dropbox in any given day. I read those files often, but I rarely write unless I'm doing something like uploading pictures from my camera.
Re: Dropbox introduces new API features
#9"[...] over 175 million people using Dropbox and more than a billion files synced each day" Assuming that the "1 billion" refers to number of sync events, that statistic implies that on average, Dropbox users only make changes to ~6 files in their Dropbox per day. That doesn't make any sense at all. Dropbox must have a massive Power Law at work. EDIT: I might be wrong with my interpretation of "files synced": it coul…
Makes sense to me. Not every user uses Dropbox every single day. Also, the 175m number is not qualified as people who have used the app in a certain amount of time, so that could include inactive accounts.
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#10"[...] over 175 million people using Dropbox and more than a billion files synced each day" Assuming that the "1 billion" refers to number of sync events, that statistic implies that on average, Dropbox users only make changes to ~6 files in their Dropbox per day. That doesn't make any sense at all. Dropbox must have a massive Power Law at work. EDIT: I might be wrong with my interpretation of "files synced": it coul…
Does 6 seem high or low to you?
If a user is using Dropbox as backup/sync as opposed to free long-term storage, 6 seems unbelieveably low.
I store my IM logs in my Dropbox. Every time a message is sent, 2 files are changed (the message log and the overall database). One conversation alone can fire 100 sync events.
And if you're like me and are a Ctrl+S addict when working on important papers or code, each Ctrl+S is a sync event.