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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by ajkjk on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:08PM (#16126129)
On the other hand, some of those criticisms were, like, obviously foolish, even at the time.

Like: "The only problem is that you have to install something."? Regular users don't care and they didn't care then.

Linux users can build this quite trivially? Yeah, but your average person can't, so who cares?

"Not income generating"? It's storage. People pay for storage all the time.

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by Frank2312 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @02:29PM (#16126975)
Agreed on all your points except the last one.

Not sure if it was just in my part of the world, but when Dropbox started, people only paid for local storage. And that was mostly technical people outside of small USB drives.

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Re:Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO by phil248 on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:04AM (#16130735)
I enjoyed the Linux comment too. It's as if they were only concerned with the other 97% of the market! Those fools.
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