Re:Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox
by mmjaa on Thursday June 08, 2017 @03:39PM
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>f you're talking about some sort of decentralized peer-2-peer, the average non-sysadmin non-techie user isn't going to want to leave their laptop up 24/7 as a node to share files.
The trouble is, precisely this argument can be made about every single layer, upon layer, upon layer, of cruft which requires a lot of things to be in place, just to make Dropbox work.
So, I'm sorry, but I don't think you've entirely thought this argument through. Dropbox should be a built-in.
Why isn't it?
Re:Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox
by killerdhmo on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:58PM
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Not OP but: I would love it to be built in. However, neither OneDrive nor iCloud currently work with the same ease of use and seamless function as Dropbox. And Dropbox (as with Google Drive) works across OS. So, my work computer is a Mac, and my Home Computer is a Windows PC. My Phone is an iPhone. I can access all of my files, anywhere, from any of these devices.
If you're talking about some sort of decentralized peer-2-peer, the average non-sysadmin non-techie user isn't going to want to leave their laptop up 24/7 as a node to share files.
The lawyers with the legal MS Word docs, and accountants with their MS Excel spreadsheets want to shut down their computer, drive home, or get on an airplane, or go to a meeting that may not have wifi connection.
If we ask users to save it to some sort of store & forward storage so their files are accessible to others (especially with others who are outside their particular company's boundaries) ... well... you end up reinventing an entity like Dropbox.