Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox

Re:Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox by mmjaa on Thursday June 08, 2017 @03:39PM (#14516610)

>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?

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Re:Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox by killerdhmo on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:58PM (#14517494)

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.

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Re:Interview with Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox by mmjaa on Friday June 09, 2017 @07:09AM (#14520564)

None of this would be un-feasible with a built-in service on any of those OS's.

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