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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

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Post by DallaRosa »

tybris wrote: post #29

Seems like a fair price for a small IT company with a single product and an unpopular subscription model, but in today's market Dropbox should be able to get a better deal.

I don't know how unpopular it is but I'm paying for the cheapest one and I haven't regretted it yet. Indeed they could release more features and blah blah blah but we gotta admit that dropbox's great thing is the fact that it just works.

Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses

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Post by subbu »

LeafStorm wrote: post #6

Dropbox 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…

if Apple had acquired Dropbox it would be to funnel Dropbox's talent off to the iCloud team and let Dropbox itself wither away

That would be the most expensive talent acquisition at $800 million.

Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses

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Post by thought_alarm »

LeafStorm wrote: post #6

Dropbox 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…

    > if Apple had acquired Dropbox it would be to funnel 
    > Dropbox's talent off to the iCloud team and let 
    > Dropbox itself wither away
What talent? If Apple had attempted to purchase Dropbox, it's because Dropbox has become the de facto filesystem for iOS devices, and virtually every iOS application that requires file system support of some kind already supports Dropbox.

It should be obvious why that's valuable to Apple. They have an iCloud-like service that is very simple to use and is already supported by virtually all iOS developers.

Slam dunk.

Re: Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses

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Post by ethank »

thought_alarm wrote: post #33
LeafStorm wrote: post #6

Dropbox 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…

> if Apple had acquired Dropbox it would be to funnel > Dropbox's talent off to the iCloud team and let > Dropbox itself wither away What talent? If Apple had attempted to purchase Dropbox, it's because Dropbox has become the de facto filesystem for iOS devices, and virtually every iOS application that requires file system support of some kind already supports Dropbox. It should be obvious why that's valuable to Appl…

Have you looked at the iCloud API docs? It's a very different beast indeed than Dropbox.
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