Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by niftich on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:38PM (#13322296)

For your usecase, Prime Photos [1] from Amazon, where they meld the traditional album and folder metaphors with auto-classifying ML -- the latter which you can luckily turn off if it creeps you out, unlike with Google.

But this is an under-served market and many people would pay to some paltry amount a month to have their family photos (or professional photographs) kept safe in the Cloud. Unfortunately most cloud storage providers are chasing the (presumably much more lucrative) enterprise market with document-editing and office-y features.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/photos/home

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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by tspike on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:43PM (#13322327)

This looks interesting, I wasn't aware Amazon had entered this space. I'm not sure I trust Amazon either, but at least they're explicit in their desire to take my money in exchange for products and services.

Edit: it doesn't appear to provide any ability to organize photos yourself?

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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by niftich on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:17PM (#13322631)

For the time being you can freely switch two different interfaces for the same backend: Prime Photos and Amazon Drive [1]. It's clunky. Cloud Drive was their first pass, Photos is their second and is barely a few months old, and I'm not whether the old interface will be disabled for Photos users at some point.

The uncertainty about the product direction is a bit off-putting, but it works decently well for my use-case [2], even if now you can't get that particular tier without Prime.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/home [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12709221#12709936

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