I could not have resisted a 9 figure buyout. that's enough to give all of your employees a massive bonus and still have way more money than one knows what to do with.
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Dropbox Indeed Balked at Major Acquisition Offer from Apple
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I"m using DropBox and iCloud. For me, they serve totally different needs. I think the DropBox guys were right in truning the offer down. They are much more valuable after iCloud than they were before. I also think Jobs respected them for their decision. He might not have liked it, but I guarantee he respected it.
People are seeing dropbox as limited when it actually has some great features not available on iCloud and something that may never be on iCloud.
As an example, for school people upload files that they share with everyone (notes etc).
As an example, for school people upload files that they share with everyone (notes etc).
I know it sounds crazy, but there are people on this wacky planet that do what they do for more than just the money.
Thank god Apple bought SIRI. Who cares if it only works on the Iphone 4S right now...just upgrade. Its gonna work on most of the apple products after it comes out of beta. You just go to be patient. Remember facetime was not in all apple products, and not is pretty much is in all the new ones.
Upgrade if you got old stuff. Technology moves fast. If you don't like the Iphone 4S wait and get the Iphone 5.
But Siri makes the Iphone 4S
I was afraid you would miss my point. I wasn't referring to your use of dashes in place of parenthesis. I was referring to your use of 'u' as short hand for 'you'.
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It isn't always about the money. Even less so when you are building something and see potential ahead. In this case they likely knew that Apple only wanted the talent and that would be the end of everything they had worked on.
The whole idea of having an "i" in the name is the you need an iDecive. And the world is going mobile. Still, Dropbox is pretty great and you've got to hand it to them for having the balls to turn down an $800,000,000 offer from Steve Jobs and Apple. If they had any sense they probably should have taken the money and ran.
Dropbox? box.net? Sugar sync? What's the point? Why bother?
iCloud is free and it works with iOS. I have the dropbox client but I never found a use for it.
I use 1Password for my password syncing and iCloud for everything else.
As for SIRI, you will see it on the iPhone 4 next year with the release of iOS 6 if not sooner.
iCloud is free and it works with iOS. I have the dropbox client but I never found a use for it.
I use 1Password for my password syncing and iCloud for everything else.
As for SIRI, you will see it on the iPhone 4 next year with the release of iOS 6 if not sooner.
SJ did not start Apple to make money. He started it because he had a vision.
So no, ask any CEO why they started their business, it is not to just "make money".
Dropbox is a very good system, and will continue to grow. It's still young, and has room to grow.
Now you know he didn't really steal the mouse and had every intention of returning it. Besides they weren't doing anything with it anyway. And you know Bill stole it from him so he couldn't return it even if he wanted to. I'm just saying.
What makes me enjoy dropbox is that I can use it to sync commonly used files that are on my MacMini, EeePC, iphone, and before I sold it, iMac G5. I can also access all my files from any computer/device with a web browser. Yeah, it may just be a feature but it's a hell of a nice feature. And a free feature that doesn't require the purchase of an apple product.
I disagree. And I applaud entrepreneurs who have conviction in their ideas enough to not be tempted by money and offers from organizations which surely would have "killed" their product.
Even IF Dropbox were to fail in the future - running their own company and having a product they created, nurtured, loved, etc is already success.
It's amazing how many people here who are supposed Apple fans are so quick to forget Apple's history, Jobs' own vision, believe and love for HIS company that brought about change and success. Yet they want to deny other people and companies the very same. Or worse - think that companies are "Stupid" for not selling to Apple.
It's not always about money. And not everyone who owns a business dreams of selling their business and giving someone else control of their "baby."
Genuine let down with most aspects of icloud.
I have been just lurking for the last year without signing in, but I had to for this post.
I was totally looking forward to icloud coming out. I was under the impression that it would be like dropbox, but better--like most things Apple. I love the ease of Dropbox and use it everywhere and every day. I have it on all of my i devices. I do find icloud cool for photo streaming and the limited work that I can do in Pages. I would find the icloud solution much better if one could upload(and instantly sync) any file type. Oh and another limitation is that you cannot directly change a Pages document on the mac side. I am hoping that icloud will improve and become even more user friendly than Dropbox.
I have been just lurking for the last year without signing in, but I had to for this post.
I was totally looking forward to icloud coming out. I was under the impression that it would be like dropbox, but better--like most things Apple. I love the ease of Dropbox and use it everywhere and every day. I have it on all of my i devices. I do find icloud cool for photo streaming and the limited work that I can do in Pages. I would find the icloud solution much better if one could upload(and instantly sync) any file type. Oh and another limitation is that you cannot directly change a Pages document on the mac side. I am hoping that icloud will improve and become even more user friendly than Dropbox.
as of iOS5, dropbox is not a feature or a product to me... it's been deprecated and removed from all systems.
At worst, I'll get a 3rd party cloud backup solution to offset what I do on iCloud, but I don't think I want to have a 'struggling' (and they will be... I don't see how Google/Facebook/Apple/MS/Amazon and even Mozy/Carbonite will give up that cloud sync space...).
I see Dropbox falling down the MySpace path of decline.
I think that personally, Turning that down (from Steve Jobs himself) was the worst mistake any company could make.
As history has proven itself, Steve saw the potential in a lot of things, And he knew how to take those things to the next level and beyond.
Dropbox is a great little feature to have, However I think they will not last for long, Just wait until someone like Google introduces their version of Dropbox or someone comes out with a better way of doing things.
I think Apple could have made Dropbox infinitely better than it already is.
In my opinion, Dropbox may have started the ending to their career. Then again, Maybe they haven't.
But, The world goes on.
As history has proven itself, Steve saw the potential in a lot of things, And he knew how to take those things to the next level and beyond.
Dropbox is a great little feature to have, However I think they will not last for long, Just wait until someone like Google introduces their version of Dropbox or someone comes out with a better way of doing things.
I think Apple could have made Dropbox infinitely better than it already is.
In my opinion, Dropbox may have started the ending to their career. Then again, Maybe they haven't.
But, The world goes on.
I am really disappointed that Apple got rid of iDisk when they introduced iCloud.
It is a very important function for macs, and it was a great way to share files among your devices. Sadly apple doesn't see the important role it plays for many.
BUT.... Dropbox is stupid to turn down $900 million outright. Apple has an awful lot of money and are a wonderful company to be bought by. Their investors deserved to get the opportunity to decide for themselves.
Only problem is that the world does not revolve around Apple and Apple products! Billions of people use non-Apple computers and smartphones. We want to be able to communicate and share data with those users, and not be locked into a proprietary ecosystem of iGadgets.
A DropBox equivalent that is only available on iPhone 5 (or whatever other new Apple gadget) would be dead on arrival. Which makes your Siri example a particularly poor one.
Sure, Dropbox is a more feature rich feature. Eventually iCloud will grow into something bigger just like Dropbox did. I've already used iCloud to restore a backup to a new phone - can't do that with Dropbox.
Dropbox is great and more than what iCloud is, but that isn't the point. The point is that it could have possibly been what Dropbox is and what iCloud will be if they would have taken the deal
These Dropbox people are a joke. Let the product dwindle away and die. iCloud has made it useless anyway.
That argument goes both ways. I think Apple is betting that there's a ton of people out there for whom iCloud is more convenient than a file system-solution (read: non-techies), but aren't aware of that yet. Remember how the iPhone was 'doomed' because of the lack of a removable battery, etc...
Bottom line is, what we consider 'choice', 'freedom', 'flexibility', often normal people see as 'hassle'.
The Mac-only criticism is true, as of right now. And most likely Apple does not have enough headroom in the Windows environment to add many more features in a way that performs acceptably.
Time will tell...
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Regarding the acquisition, seems that they did the wrong thing to themselves ( =not get the money and run), and the right thing for the users ( =not let the service be discontinued)
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iCloud and Dropbox are not equal. Their features, customers and use are not exactly the same. They can co-exist.
However, I think Dropbox should have accepted the offer. I agree, at the present they are a feature not a product, which another company can directly copy.
iCloud and Dropbox are not equal. Their features, customers and use are not exactly the same. They can co-exist.
However, I think Dropbox should have accepted the offer. I agree, at the present they are a feature not a product, which another company can directly copy.
soon dropbox will be got cause they are selling the same bs glorified FTP branded product that are the new cool fad that consumers dont understand yet... i dont want my stuff stored on random internet servers especially when data is so expensive and limited.. and just think of how the feds can take all ur stuff any time..lol soon the world will know..