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Re:Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Go... by pooriaazimi on Saturday January 14, 2012 @08:39PM (#3465989) 

   I see dropbox files as MY FILES. I don't like when
   they are obscured behind some application
The important thing is that it's YOU (and me), not the average computer user. Apple and Google are successful because they fill average users' needs with simple, intuitive and easy to use products; not by presenting them with an scary concept like 'file system'.

I hate it when I'm on my iPad and have to do all sorts of stupid tricks to move files between applications. It's just stupid. But I'm sure Apple will fix most of the nightmare in iOS 6. But I must side with Steve Jobs when he said "When you try and teach someone to use a Mac, everything is fine, until you show them the file system." Average computer users have extremely cluttered and unorganized folders and desktops. Dropbox does not help that.

I think Apple's strategy will work better for them (in the long term) than that of Dropbox's... “A lot of us have been working for 10 years to get rid of the file system so the user doesn't have to learn about it.” (Jobs, WWDC 2011)

And this is my favorite quote about Dropbox:

   "Dropbox... It's a feature, not a company"! (Steve Jobs)
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Re:Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Go... by nkassis on Sunday January 15, 2012 @12:40AM (#3466461)
"scary concept like 'file system'." I find that somewhat ironic considering it was meant to be intuitive and relate to the real world concept of Document,Files and Folders. But when the real world connection begins to be broken I can see how it becomes scary.
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Re:Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Go... by querulous on Sunday January 15, 2012 @04:24AM (#3466777)
The problem is that in the real world managing documents, files and folders is a full time job for some people.

If documents, files and folders were intuitive and efficient, you wouldn't have relatively huge administrative staffs at medical clinics, real estate offices, banks, law offices, government institutions, schools, et cetera.

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Re:Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Go... by scorpion032 on Sunday January 15, 2012 @03:21PM (#3468120)
Same could be said of "software" and "operating system" when microsoft was built.

Plus it is not like dropbox has set it's goal to do the one and the only thing that is file sync. That was a good goal to achieve until this point.

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Re:Dropbox inventor determined to build the next Apple or Go... by lrobb on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:43AM (#3467114) 

   "Dropbox... It's a feature, not a company"! (Steve Jobs)
Not only that... but I thought Dropbox was a feature built on top of S3? Not true?
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