Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy (YC S11) And Puts Photos Into Its Focus

Post by timjahn » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 8:56 PM UTC

kylec wrote: post #7

timjahn wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"What services are safe to invest time and money in using?" Great question. I think in this situation, a company like Dropbox is probably safer, as they're a lot bigger in certain measurements (amount of funding, amount of revenue, etc). I think the companies that have the most to lose are the safest to invest time and money in using. A small startup that just started 3 weeks ago is more likely to be sold than a comp…

The problem though is that if everyone waits around for services to become established, then no service will be able to grow to the necessary size to become established.

Post by blackysky » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 9:00 PM UTC

Post by jfoster » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 9:02 PM UTC

hospadam wrote: post #2

I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…

Post by jfoster » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 9:06 PM UTC

kylec wrote: post #7

timjahn wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"What services are safe to invest time and money in using?" Great question. I think in this situation, a company like Dropbox is probably safer, as they're a lot bigger in certain measurements (amount of funding, amount of revenue, etc). I think the companies that have the most to lose are the safest to invest time and money in using. A small startup that just started 3 weeks ago is more likely to be sold than a comp…

The problem though is that if everyone waits around for services to become established, then no service will be able to grow to the necessary size to become established.

Post by bentcorner » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 9:09 PM UTC

OmarIsmail wrote: post #4

hospadam wrote: post #2

I'm really happy for the Snapjoy team - I love their product! But to be honest, I'm a little bummed. I thought that since this service was making money through subscriptions, they would be around for a while. I spent a lot if time and effort moving my entire photo library to their cloud. I know they haven't given any details about the future of the product, but I imagine they will move the team to DropBox products. A…

Even big "safe" companies like Microsoft and Google discontinue services. It's probably better to accept the fact that services come and go as the price of progress and figure out how to live in such a world. This is actually one of the ironic casualties of the cloud. In the old days you bought your packaged software and it was pretty much guaranteed to work as long as you didn't change your setup (OS, hardware, etc)…