Not surpising on that either. Time when I was getting those speeds I was uploading some massive files during peak hours. For the most part even 1-1.5 mbps is fine except when you need to upload or download all your space.
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Dropbox May Have Declined $800 Million Acquisition Offer from Apple
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Not surpising on that either. Time when I was getting those speeds I was uploading some massive files during peak hours. For the most part even 1-1.5 mbps is fine except when you need to upload or download all your space.
Well I suppose it must be as fast as your network is. My home net only gets 0.5mbps upload speed LOL
See: Facebook - why it's just another Friendster clone.
Then follow up with: Facebook - why it dominates the world even though it started out as just a Friendster clone.
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See: Facebook - why Zuckerberg turned down $1.5 billion
The follow-up with: Facebook - what it's worth now.
Additional reading: Why Apple bought SoundJam, LaLa etc.
From a customer's standpoint I agree, but I bet they will be sorry they refused the offer (if it is real) in a few years. Just like Yahoo should have accepted Microsoft's offer.
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We'll see in a few years if this valuation will hold up. How much is AOL worth now? Although Facebook has been good at adopting emerging trends and at keeping itself popular, there is still some chance that social networking will be worth as much as web mail. Widely used, indispensable, but ultimately it does not make much money for the providers.
A good test is answering this question: how many times did you buy something after clicking on an ad on Facebook? How many people do you know who bought something after seeing an ad on Facebook? Banner advertising was very popular and Yahoo made a lot of money early on, but advertisers start looking at statistics and prices more critically after a while. Since the bubble burst, income from banner advertising has been very low.
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After done with your reading, think: Which .com may dominate this field even though it is just another Dropbox clone?
I love drop box! I imagine if Apple bought them they wouldn't allow me to stream over 20mb video over 3G 
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That or they sit on it and get a even larger offer from ms or google. MS has tried with sky drive and it is not taking off. I know of a few others that are not as popular.
iDisk was a complete flop and if apple had bought drop box chances are it would of been a same thing. I do not have much hope of icloud being that great. It will be a half bake google music or amazon cloud drive. Its dropbox knock off being a complete flop like like iDisk was.
This would be absolutely great! I would love to see better Dropbox I regrading on my iPad. At the moment it is so tedious to send Pages, Keynote and Numbers files fro iPad to Mac. If only apple owned dropbox.............,
Or if only Apple allowed a filesystem on iOS...
Yeah, you are right, there are bigger suckers out there. Still, if Skype which is a household name all over the world is sold for $8.5 billion and that was quite a reach, I doubt anybody will be paying anything close to $4 billion for Dropbox.
actually it is good for innovation. It motivates people to work on their project as much as they can do then they wait for the good offers from well funded companies.
Yeah... Ok...
Apple only just finished builging a half a million square foot data center, but they could totally use dropbox too bro...
they don't even compete with each other.
dropbox is just trying to get someone to buy them.
Apple only just finished builging a half a million square foot data center, but they could totally use dropbox too bro...
they don't even compete with each other.
dropbox is just trying to get someone to buy them.
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The offerings I've seen/heard of are always 'within reason' (according to current or in the near future projected profits). I don't see how this discourage innovation, since it's a financially very interesting prospective for start-ups.
maybe not but what about say 2-3 year down the road someone offers them 2 billion.
Dropbox from what I can tell is kind of the gold standard in cloud storage everyone else is measured by. In short it just works really well.
On my computer I store all my school stuff in there and because of it I hardly ever use a flash drive any more at school. I just uploaded and download out of dropbox as I need to.
Why would they need to do that!
It's a going concern sure... but it's not like it not some thing Apple can do on their own. It's a cloud file network.
The problem with dropbox is it's shares per person it's only any good for personal use. People use it business for sharing projects... but it just doesn't work. You end up with multiple shares backups only the creator can delete - not even the original owner that set it up. and the backup soon add up.
Also not very good at multiple folder targets etc. Amazons Jungle disk is better at all this. it's project based not user, but perhaps not as simple / seemless.
It's a going concern sure... but it's not like it not some thing Apple can do on their own. It's a cloud file network.
The problem with dropbox is it's shares per person it's only any good for personal use. People use it business for sharing projects... but it just doesn't work. You end up with multiple shares backups only the creator can delete - not even the original owner that set it up. and the backup soon add up.
Also not very good at multiple folder targets etc. Amazons Jungle disk is better at all this. it's project based not user, but perhaps not as simple / seemless.
Having to muck around in the filesystem is a bug, not a feature (for most users anyway). We need some place where we can download files though. Currently, if no app can view a file, you can't download it. A full filesystem is too much, but a file repository might work.
I agree that a full file system is unnecessary. What we need is essentially a Documents folder. This simple addition would make it a whole lot easier to find and load files, and to share them between apps (instead of having to give each app its own copy).
Now however I should mention that there are third party browsers, like iCab, which can download files. They just save them to an internal folder.
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Anywhere where I can centrally manage my documents and organise them would be appreciated.
Except for the security breach, and the confusion they seem to have about their own terms of service, regarding who has access to your files. I'm still using Dropbox, still have a premium subscription in fact, but they really dropped the ball this year.
I backup everything to my Timecapsule AND backup the majority of my hard drive to Dropbox. That way I'm doubly protected. If my Timecapsule fails, is stolen or is destroyed, somehow, then I've still got most of my stuff on Dropbox.
The big thing which you don't seem to take into consideration, though, is the ability to access files you may not have planned to access. Or perhaps you are somewhere without your laptop and want to access a file. Or maybe you want to access a file on your phone.
The other thing Dropbox is great for is sharing files. Especially big ones. Collaborating with someone in a different place is SOOO much easier with Dropbox.
Basically, I don't think you really understand Dropbox.
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It depends on what they're in it for. If they want to make a quick buck and get out, then they should sell as soon as they can. But believe it or not, not everyone thinks that way.
Pretty much any product or service can be replicated. Currently, Dropbox does what they do better than anyone and they have A LOT of people using their service. And they make a lot of money. Not sure why they need to sell out.
As for Groupon, I don't know much about how they make their money, but they seem to be doing pretty well.
Your comment about a failed business model is a head scratcher.
Apple doesn't need Dropbox anyway, they have iCloud.
Most likely they would have just shut down the service and say that it was incorporated into iCloud
I will NEVER use iCloud.
Boycott it !
Dropbox solves this problem http://xkcd.com/949/
Dropbox solved this problem for me http://xkcd.com/949/
The ability to drag a file to my Dropbox and share a link to that file is perhaps the single most useful thing about the service. Storing files remotely has been done previously, but making it easy to share the file was never done correctly.
The other thing Dropbox has in its favor is ubiquity.
Dropbox solved this problem for me http://xkcd.com/949/
The ability to drag a file to my Dropbox and share a link to that file is perhaps the single most useful thing about the service. Storing files remotely has been done previously, but making it easy to share the file was never done correctly.
The other thing Dropbox has in its favor is ubiquity.
While I would have loved better Apple integration with Dropbox (e.g. inegration into the OS), I am happy it remains an independent player. I still don't fully understand iCloud and the stuff I do understand makes me question the hype. Dropbox has saved the day so many times for me and is one of those services that I now ask how I ever lived without.
iDisk is platform independent
Whatever other flaws iDisk may have, it is already completely platform independent, in fact maybe more so than Dropbox, since you don't even need to install anything extra on Windows or Linux to mount your iDisk. iDisk uses the standard WebDav protocol, so any OS which has a WebDav client available for it can mount an iDisk. Here are the instructions for mounting your iDisk in Windows 7:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3264#3
And on Linux:
http://mindbat.com/2007/12/how-to-connect-to-idisk-in-ubuntu/
I've been doing both for years, and it works fine.
I do think Dropbox works better than iDisk in some ways, but I don't think cross-platform support is one of those ways. Some things I like better about Dropbox:
Whatever other flaws iDisk may have, it is already completely platform independent, in fact maybe more so than Dropbox, since you don't even need to install anything extra on Windows or Linux to mount your iDisk. iDisk uses the standard WebDav protocol, so any OS which has a WebDav client available for it can mount an iDisk. Here are the instructions for mounting your iDisk in Windows 7:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3264#3
And on Linux:
http://mindbat.com/2007/12/how-to-connect-to-idisk-in-ubuntu/
I've been doing both for years, and it works fine.
I do think Dropbox works better than iDisk in some ways, but I don't think cross-platform support is one of those ways. Some things I like better about Dropbox:
- The offline caching feature is only available on Macs with iDisk, whereas Dropbox supports that on Windows as well.
- Dropbox is cheaper per gigabyte, and allows purchasing more space than iDisk. Plus they have the free 2 GB option.
- For sharing, Dropbox allows sharing whole folders, whereas iDisk only supports sharing individual files, or putting things in your Public folder.
If you are working alone, then I guess that would suit you well.
Nowadays people actually work together a lot in groups.
They need some storage that anyone from the group can save and access.
I say iCloud is useful if you own a lot of apple products.
Apple makes a lot of cool stuff but also a lot of **** stuff that no one knows about. The great inventors creates big pile of ***** before they get to actually invent something.