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Amusingly, I just deleted my account for wholly unrelated reasons last week.
I love Dropbox, but where's the growth potential? They do an amazing job of storage and syncing, and as a user I'd love for them to focus on that. Can they use their early success in sync to bootstrap other products? "Evernote" by Dropbox? EDIT> This is an honest question, and I'd appreciate informative replies.
75% of Dropbox users are located outside the United States. They have invested heavily in expanding their PoPs and in Europe and Asia. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/19/dropbox-announces-massive-...
The last few years Enterprise customers have been a major target.
https://www.recode.net/2014/3/20/11624780/dropbox-zeros-in-o...
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/dropboxs-latest-announceme...
Again S-1 should provide a peek at the rate of adoption. Anecdotally I can share reports of wavering between consumer and enterprise focus.
So what's the advantage of Dropbox over FTP? Seriously. I have only used it for sharing large files. What else good is it?
A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ownership, then the grossly overvalued company is pawned off for the public to invest in. VCs have figured out how to extract most of the exciting gains.
So what's the advantage of Dropbox over FTP? Seriously. I have only used it for sharing large files. What else good is it?
If you use a local copy, you have to set up something to sync it with the cloud version, or sync it manually.
Dropbox keeps a local copy for speed, and also syncs automatically. It's the best of both worlds.
It's also easy to use.
It also keeps a file version history.
A major difference between between this tech boom and the dot com boom of the 90s is the general public had a real shot at investing in serious growth potential during the dot com boom. Now most of the growth is experienced under private ownership, then the grossly overvalued company is pawned off for the public to invest in. VCs have figured out how to extract most of the exciting gains.
There were a lot of busts from that era and the average person isn't going to be able pick them well.
It’s a matter of time before Apple rolls out iCloud file/folder sharing (which currently exists in some form already). In addition, they recently announced iMessage "Business Chat" which will likely later include other enterprise functionality.