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Re:Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO by PeCaN on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:09PM (#12298880)
The reason WhatsApp is valuable is because a chat app is rather useless without a massive userbase. That's not true for file syncing.

Having a massive user base may be all that matters for inherently social applications, but Dropbox is definitely not one of those.

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Re:Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO by Fomite on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @02:37PM (#12299553)
It matters because an established DropBox user might not care to add other services.

For example, all the new students in my lab will be using DropBox, because its what their PI uses.

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Re:Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO by gaius on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:31PM (#12299033)
It depends how much it's used for sharing files.
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