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Re:Dropbox Chooses Investor Group, Valuation Set at $5+ Billion by rubyrescue on Saturday August 13, 2011 @03:23PM (#2881752)
21 million seems pretty easy to achieve to me worldwide; every one of my social circles and peer groups, both technical and non-technical, in the US and South America, seem to use dropbox. my parents love it. my wife is non-technical to a fault and can't live without it; she just paid for the upgrade to 100gb because it represents safetey to her of her photos. even my under 10 year old son knows that saving in dropbox means he won't lose his homework assignment.

i think they have a huge, huge opportunity.

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Re:Dropbox Chooses Investor Group, Valuation Set at $5+ Billion by ThomPete on Saturday August 13, 2011 @04:06PM (#2881858)
Just until windows and apple both offer the service. Apple is already on the way with iCloud.
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Re:Dropbox Chooses Investor Group, Valuation Set at $5+ Billion by jmreardon on Saturday August 13, 2011 @09:33PM (#2882496)
Microsoft has had such a service for a few years now, they call it SkyDrive. Unfortunately it wasn't a very good user experience when I last looked at it. It's been a while though (and I just use Dropbox now), so it might have gotten better.
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Re:Dropbox Chooses Investor Group, Valuation Set at $5+ Billion by sprovoost on Sunday August 14, 2011 @02:47AM (#2882974)
Microsoft may have just been too early. Once they recognize the success they can clone the usability in no time. Or patent troll Dropbox off the map. Very risky investment if you ask me.

That said, Dropbox is a great product and the free version is good enough for the small number of documents that I have that are not somewhere else in the cloud.

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Re:Dropbox Chooses Investor Group, Valuation Set at $5+ Billion by ThomPete on Sunday August 14, 2011 @04:33AM (#2883133)
But the question is wether that justify the high evaluation . I thing ms and apple are going to get their act together before that prize is ver realized. But that's just me.
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Re:Dropbox Chooses Investor Group, Valuation Set at $5+ Billion by sprovoost on Sunday August 14, 2011 @12:46PM (#2883934)
It does not justify the high valuation. That's what I meant with "clone the usability in no time".
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