In other words, getting ready to become more selfish from now on. Is Condoleezza Rice still working for Dropbox?
Oh grow up.
Sorry, I thought IPOs make companies beholden to quarterly profits and lose much of their pre-IPO spark. My mistake.
Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
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Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#52I used Dropbox for a few years, but ultimately switched to another big-name company service. Consumers now have great options available from all the big-name companies: Amazon Drive, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. Meanwhile, in the enterprise world it looks like Box is dominating. Given this, I think it's reasonable to ask: what's their value proposition in 2017? I hadn't been following them for…
Box has always been better, with less baggage. No dark UI patterns. No creepy Bush-era board members. And overall just a better application.
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#53My office got a call on a great deal for a renewal on our subscription and our new pricing .. and our sales rep would give us a good deal since we had a subscription for a while... it would only be 2x what it currently was. We cancelled it and went to box. Easy and much happier.
Similar thing happened at MPOW. We've been Dropbox for Business subscribers for several years and all of a sudden they informed us of some astronomical price increase. We're migrating everyone's data before the end of the year and moving to a locally hosted Seafile-based storage solution.
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#54If I had anything to do with Dropbox I'd be scrambling to cash out ASAP. 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.
I think your statement is correct but example is not very good. Majority of Dropbox users are using Windows. Perhaps if Azure were to come out with Dropbox-like functionality this would be more apt. (I'm sure that Azure has at least some Dropbox-like functionality but is still a distance away from replacing Dropbox)
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#55If I had anything to do with Dropbox I'd be scrambling to cash out ASAP. 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.
I think your statement is correct but example is not very good. Majority of Dropbox users are using Windows. Perhaps if Azure were to come out with Dropbox-like functionality this would be more apt. (I'm sure that Azure has at least some Dropbox-like functionality but is still a distance away from replacing Dropbox)
Microsoft OneDrive for Business is moving in that direction. Online collaboration of Office files, couple of clicks sharing and security controls that Enterprise IT departments love. I'd still say Dropbox is easier to use with a cleaner interface. However with so many Fortune 500 Enterprises already in bed with Microsoft, OneDrive for Business has a leg up.
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#56If I had anything to do with Dropbox I'd be scrambling to cash out ASAP. 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.
> It’s a matter of time before Apple rolls out iCloud file/folder sharing
And that solution won't work on my work-machine running Windows, nor on my home-machines running Linux.
Nor on any machine owned by anyone in my greater family. Because most people don't have Macs.
It will be completely irrelevant outside some niche Apple-only circles. Like most services Apple make.
I'd be surprised if it disrupted Dropbox noticeably.
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#57I used Dropbox for a few years, but ultimately switched to another big-name company service. Consumers now have great options available from all the big-name companies: Amazon Drive, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. Meanwhile, in the enterprise world it looks like Box is dominating. Given this, I think it's reasonable to ask: what's their value proposition in 2017? I hadn't been following them for…
> For those of you that are paying for their consumer offering, I'd be very interested in reading about why you've chosen to stick with em instead of migrating to another service.
I'm a freeloader so I guess I don't fully qualify.
That said, what I like about Sropbox is how it works (and works well) everywhere.
Windows, Linux, Android. At home, at work, on my NAS and in "the cloud".
All other services have major shortcomings if you want universal platform-support.
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#58A 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.
The riskiness of the dotcom boom of the 90s crashed so hard it spent the entire stock market into a downward spiral. Maybe it makes sense to have those kinds of risks taken largely in private markets for accredited investors only.
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#59I used Dropbox for a few years, but ultimately switched to another big-name company service. Consumers now have great options available from all the big-name companies: Amazon Drive, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. Meanwhile, in the enterprise world it looks like Box is dominating. Given this, I think it's reasonable to ask: what's their value proposition in 2017? I hadn't been following them for…
Box has always been better, with less baggage. No dark UI patterns. No creepy Bush-era board members. And overall just a better application.
I just went to the Box website to look for a Linux client. I'd like to report back, but on Safari[1] I can't read anything on the page. It's just black.
[1] Version 10.1.1 (12603.2.4)
Re: Dropbox Is Getting Ready for IPO
#60If I had anything to do with Dropbox I'd be scrambling to cash out ASAP. 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.
> It’s a matter of time before Apple rolls out iCloud file/folder sharing And that solution won't work on my work-machine running Windows, nor on my home-machines running Linux. Nor on any machine owned by anyone in my greater family. Because most people don't have Macs. It will be completely irrelevant outside some niche Apple-only circles. Like most services Apple make. I'd be surprised if it disrupted Dropbox noti…
Microsoft might follow Apple's lead of OS developers including cloud sync. That's gonna leave a mark on Dropbox's business.