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Re:Dropbox S-1 by lylo on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:20PM (#16450129)
I’m a fan of Dropbox, it’s an excellent product. It’s the only file sync product I’ve used in anger that I actually trust — I’ve had glitches of one sort or another with iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive... never with Dropbox. It just works. Apple should have bought them, Jobs got it wrong ;-)

Dropbox Paper is also a delight to use, from a personal perspective. I’ve never used it on a team. I would be interested to hear whether teams of 50+ have successfully used it — it just doesn’t feel ready for the enterprise in the way that Google Drive does/is.

I’ve not read this S-1 (perhaps it clarifies this) but Dropbox seems a little confused about positioning B2C vs B2B. Does it have a packaging problem? Can it have it both ways? It feels like it’s trying to, but when I was a paying Pro user, I couldn’t get away from the upsell on the site for me to move to the business package. Annoying.

Good luck to them though — they have killer design, a killer viral product and a loyal user base.

Re:Dropbox S-1 by brisance on Saturday February 24, 2018 @05:35AM (#16452663)
Apple did not get it wrong. Steve Jobs offered to buy (for a putative $800M) but Drew Houston said it was not for sale. Thereafter, Steve was reportedly to have said that Apple would crush them since Dropbox is a feature and not a product.
Re:Dropbox S-1 by lylo on Saturday February 24, 2018 @05:43AM (#16452685)
I stand corrected! I thought he didn’t want to buy them for that reason, didn’t realise he had made an offer.
Re:Dropbox S-1 by sid-kap on Saturday February 24, 2018 @01:32AM (#16452073)
Dropbox Paper is great but the Android app sucks