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Re:New Dropbox for iOS by abalone on Friday December 14, 2012 @09:48PM (#4924436)
I agree about native Photostream working better than Dropbox's camera upload stuff. But as for the other uses, you've already nailed it: easy access to your files. You just use a $5 app to do it, whereas Dropbox's is free. What's not to get?
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Re:New Dropbox for iOS by ghshephard on Friday December 14, 2012 @11:29PM (#4924593)
I find it hard to believe that anybody who has an iPhone, and works with documents, hasn't purchased GoodReader. It's on the top-3 of applications for people who work with documents, and the top-10 of iPhone apps in general.

But, I'll accept your premise - for the casual user of Dropbox, who doesn't ever want to buy apps for their iPhone (unusual, the vast majority of the value of an iPhone comes from it's ecosystem, but i'll run with it) - they can access their files through the iOS client.

But, really, everyone who does this seriously should have Goodreader on their iPhone.

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Re:New Dropbox for iOS by clarky07 on Saturday December 15, 2012 @12:56AM (#4924703)
Clearly you don't sell iPhone apps for a living :-) you'd be shocked how many people won't pay for apps. I've met multi-millionaires who refuse to pay for apps. Not kidding at all.
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