I bet Amazon has also tried to acquire Dropbox on more than one occasion. And that would seem to be a more reasonable acquisition. Clearly dropbox has a vision for its own success though.
Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
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Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
#12Look towards the end. They claim Dropbox has received $4 billion in a recent round of funding. Don't think they have a clue what's going on.
Dropbox has received a total of $7.2 million according to CrunchBase.
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox
Perhaps you meant to reference their valuation when they last took money?
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/index-leads-4-billion-valua...
Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
#13Look towards the end. They claim Dropbox has received $4 billion in a recent round of funding. Don't think they have a clue what's going on.
So, essentially the Apple board of directors thinks the privelege of being Apple employees is worth about $3.2 Billion.
Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
#14When I heard that Dropbox had raised a very large round, my first thought was that Apple or MSFT was trying to buy them up, since both are trying to kick-start their cloud storage offerings. IMHO, its too bad, since I would of really loved to have seen Dropbox more tightly integrated into iOS. (iCloud will be and it might be my replacement for Dropbox). Though for sharing, I don't think iCloud will have those feature…
"IMHO, its too bad, since I would of really loved to have seen Dropbox more tightly integrated into iOS. "
As a user of Windows, Linux and Android all I can say is "thank fucking god". It would have destroyed a perfectly good cross-platform product.
Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
#15What exactly does dropbox offer that apple's iCloud won't bring to the table? (not to criticize dropbox, but it would seem relatively easy for apple to replicate)
iCloud currently doesn’t offer anything that Dropbox offers. Dropbox currently doesn’t offer anything that iCloud offers. iCloud and Dropbox are different products with very little overlap.
There certainly is a Dropbox shaped hole in iCloud. (I will not dare and claim that there is an iCloud shaped hole in Dropbox. iCloud didn’t even have a chance to be successful yet and Dropbox is very successful without anything iCloud offers.)
Now, I have been thinking that Apple’s long term plan is to get rid of the file system (as something the user has to deal with). iCloud and even more so iOS are steps in that direction. Even Apple, however, has to acknowledge that there will at least be a transitional period between now and that future. That’s where the Dropbox shaped hole comes in. Dropbox is (currently) all about the filesystem: There is this folder and you can stick anything at all in it to get it synced across your devices and to be able to access it from the web.
Dropbox has that implemented perfectly. I don’t know whether Apple could copy that. I personally never used it but people have been telling me that iDisk (which was conceptually pretty similar to Dropbox) sucked.
Still, it would be weird for Apple to go off in a direction like that. Not sure whether they are willing to, well, more or less backtrack with iCloud (back to the filesystem).
Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
#16Look towards the end. They claim Dropbox has received $4 billion in a recent round of funding. Don't think they have a clue what's going on.
So, essentially the Apple board of directors thinks the privelege of being Apple employees is worth about $3.2 Billion.
No, the $800M offer was at some point in the past, presumably when Dropbox was much smaller than it is now.
Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
#17Anywhere else reporting this story? Chip Hazard doesnt exactly seem credible.
The original source of this rumor was BusinessInsider
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-gossip-on-apples-80...
ChipHazard crappily didn't link to the origin of the rumor.
Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
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Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
#19Dropbox would really not be a good fit for Apple anyways. I can't see Apple allowing them to continue offering their current product, considering that (a) Apple likes to brand things as Apple, (b) they are very focused on cross-platform capability, which includes Apple's primary competitors of Windows, Linux, Android, and BlackBerry, and (c) Apple's vision for iCloud is quite different than what Dropbox offers (thoug…
On the other hand, Dropbox has been stagnating despite its success. For example: how long will it take for Dropbox to allow read-only sharing on Dropbox volumes? Not to mention their facepalm-worthy security blunders this year.
Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses
#20That's really too bad, Apple could've forced Dropbox to shape up privacy and security wise and actually made it into something pretty cool.