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Re:Steve Jobs vowed to ‘kill’ Dropbox with iCloud by sjwright on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:16AM (#6766593)
Quote:

  "Now some people think that the cloud is
  just a hard disk in the sky. You take a
  bunch of stuff and you put it in your
  Dropbox or your iDisk or whatever, and
  then it transfers it up into the cloud
  and it stores it, and then you drag
  whatever you want back out on your other
  devices. We think it's way more than
  that -- and we call it iCloud."
All Steve is saying is he thinks they have a better idea for how the cloud should work. I don't see anything remotely similar to "vowing to kill" any particular service. I think his quote misunderstands the beautiful simplicity of Dropbox, but that's about it.

Most charitably, you could argue that when Steve has previously said words to the effect of "we think we've done something better," entire industries were occasionally upturned. For the CEO of Dropbox, to hear that phraseology used in their direction, I can imagine how they might interpret it that way.

Re:Steve Jobs vowed to ‘kill’ Dropbox with iCloud by Dogamondo on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:28AM (#6766639)
I didn't watch the video to see Jobs saying this, just reading from the parent transcript, but can we be sure Jobs was actually referring to Dropbox here? And not the default shared folder that ships with OS X called 'Dropbox'? (Which many people had automated to back up dropped files to a remote server in the past).
Re:Steve Jobs vowed to ‘kill’ Dropbox with iCloud by sjwright on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:04AM (#6766731)
Unlikely, as the built-in Drop Box isn't anything to do with cloud, it's just a way to allow people to copy files onto a networked computer without authentication.
Re:Steve Jobs vowed to ‘kill’ Dropbox with iCloud by caycep on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:51AM (#6766696)
one could say that Houston's bayesian perception of those words were a little different.