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Microsoft Adding Dropbox Integration to Mobile and Web Office Suites

So just to be clear: Is this just making it a lot easier to open the doc in the iOS Word app and saving changes to Dropbox or is it like putting Word within the Dropbox app allowing changes to be made directly from within the Dropbox app?

If it's just going to take you to the Word iOS app, won't that still require an Office 365 subscription to fully use?
 
Used to love Dropbox, but since they now want me to pay 120$ + a year, i said screw it and now only use my Google storage. For $1.99 & 120gigs of storage a month, its far better deal.
 
Dropbox will eventually be sold

The only way DP's venture capital investors will ever be able to realize the kinds of returns they want is by selling the compay. Monetizing tech company valuations provides far greater returns than waiting to collect dividends that might never be declared.

An unrelated comment... Eventually "the chickens will come home to roost " for Amazon.

Only in the tech industry does revenues trump net income!

From Wikipedia...

Financials[edit]

Dropbox is funded by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Amidzad.[6] Starting in mid-2009, it began releasing new features gradually to help measure customer interest, a Lean Startup technique.[38]

In 2011, technology entrepreneur Praveen Yajman speculated that Dropbox's valuation was more than $1 billion.[39] TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, and Financial Post speculated that Dropbox's valuation could be up to $5 to $10 billion,[40] while its 2011 revenue was expected to be $240 million.[17]

On April 3, 2012, Dropbox announced that Bono and The Edge, two members of the Irish rock band U2, were individual investors in the company.[41]
 
cmdspace said:
So just to be clear: Is this just making it a lot easier to open the doc in the iOS Word app and saving changes to Dropbox ...
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Yes. DropBox will be a load/save location just as OneDrive is now.

Although don't new iOS 8 APIs allow any app to do this if they play by the rules...?
 
A few months ago this was a huge deal, then I moved to OneDrive. It's Mac client isn't as polished as is like, but it's been solid with no issues. And I'm currently using 15GB of storage out of my unlimited and that would cost a lot with Dropbox.

I wonder what made them change their stance on this? They were so ambitions to push OneDrive.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
I'm confused. Will Microsoft be discontinuing OneDrive? What exactly does having integration with Dropbox do for users that integration with OneDrive didn't?
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The option for people who already use Dropbox to not have to also use OneDrive.
 
dashpuppy said:
Used to love Dropbox, but since they now want me to pay 120$ + a year, i said screw it and now only use my Google storage. For $1.99 & 120gigs of storage a month, its far better deal.
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Agreed. I have 1+ TB of OneDrive space along with my Office365 subscription. Don't really use DropBox much any more.
 
xraydoc said:
Agreed. I have 1+ TB of OneDrive space along with my Office365 subscription. Don't really use DropBox much any more.
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I used to love Dropbox it sure did alot, and worked awesome. Love the fact that when i take a Movie/ Picture on my Samsung phone, it put it into the Camera folder, ( when i was on WIFI) was a good feature.

Now i wish google storage did the same thing :( PITA it's a google os, but it's not a feature :(

Oh well..
 
brianvictor7 said:
You know, the more I use apple products, the more I find I like the look, quality and support of their hardware better than anyone elses, the unity of their software is still excellent across platforms, but I find myself struggling with the limitations the enforce. Maybe I'm just having a bad day, but that is the feeling I have.
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I could not agree more.
 
What's the point? Here's my logic:

-To use iPad Office, you need to be 365 subscriber.
-If you're 365 subscriber, MS gives you 1TB on OneDrive.
-If you have 1TB on OneDrive, why the hell would you even need to pay extra cash for dropbox?

Plus, OneDrive is damn good. Not that dropbox is bad, but hey.. MS gives you the whole package: email, cloud and office. It's also cheaper if you consider the bang-per-dollar. Makes Apple Drive and its ridiculous prices looks lame. Cloud services should be cheaper. It's only a damn cloud.
 
How about git integration? I put all my stuff in a git repository and sync it with GitHub nowadays, so I've stopped using Dropbox except for public file hosting. But Dropbox is still a great service that I've used since its beginning.
 
I'll use the service that doesn't datamine or aggregate my information to sell to advertisers.
 
kagharaht said:
I'll use the service that doesn't datamine or aggregate my information to sell to advertisers.
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I guess that's why WD and Segate now have their own app that talks to a storage box at your home :) a great idea.. only a few down falls.

Need 2 plus drives for redundancy
Need a ups, to provide clean power
Need decent home connection.
 
boechat said:
What's the point? Here's my logic:

-To use iPad Office, you need to be 365 subscriber.
-If you're 365 subscriber, MS gives you 1TB on OneDrive.
-If you have 1TB on OneDrive, why the hell would you even need to pay extra cash for dropbox?

Plus, OneDrive is damn good. Not that dropbox is bad, but hey.. MS gives you the whole package: email, cloud and office. It's also cheaper if you consider the bang-per-dollar. Makes Apple Drive and its ridiculous prices looks lame. Cloud services should be cheaper. It's only a damn cloud.
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If you have to subscribe to MS Office, I would tend to agree. We'll see if the next MS Office for Mac is really an improvement on Mac 2011. I do like the look and uncluttered feel of iWork: a sidebar beats a ribbon any day if you value being able to see more of your document at once. Unfortunately, iWork lacks some features I find indespensible (basic grammar issues slip by in Pages).
 
maflynn said:
Cool, but I've been happy with OneDrive, especially in going to unlimited storage. I've all but dropped Dropbox
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Absolutely, I looked at cloud services recently and I consistently saw Onedrive being highly rated so signed up, it works great across my Apple and Android devices, and I got 30GB for free at sign up too :) plus the cost to expand that storage is peanuts.
Also fantastic to see them offering uses a choice of services, unlike Apple that does the complete opposite.
 
I think is really great news, and increases the flexibility of Office on the iPad.

I recently subscribed (note the super-cheap offer for university employees in the UK) and it's working well for me on some spreadsheets I use between work and home.

I seem to have documents in OneDrive, photos in Dropbox, and other stuff in iCloud, and I'm not sure if I want to, or need to, integrate them all in the single cloud storage..
 
boechat said:
What's the point? Here's my logic:

-To use iPad Office, you need to be 365 subscriber.
-If you're 365 subscriber, MS gives you 1TB on OneDrive.
-If you have 1TB on OneDrive, why the hell would you even need to pay extra cash for dropbox?

Plus, OneDrive is damn good. Not that dropbox is bad, but hey.. MS gives you the whole package: email, cloud and office. It's also cheaper if you consider the bang-per-dollar. Makes Apple Drive and its ridiculous prices looks lame. Cloud services should be cheaper. It's only a damn cloud.
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I agree, and I now have 10TB by virtue of my Office 365 subscription. OneDrive reports that I have 10,270 GB of storage available (15 base + 10,240 Office + 15 for turning on camera roll--and turning it right back off).
 
brianvictor7 said:
I wish Apple would buy Dropbox and use it. I love its versatility.
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I'm glad Apple didn't succeed in buying it because they would have just rolled it into iCloud and probably hobbled its great cross-platform support.

Similarly now hoping Microsoft doesn't buy it....
 
Traverse said:
A few months ago this was a huge deal, then I moved to OneDrive. It's Mac client isn't as polished as is like, but it's been solid with no issues. And I'm currently using 15GB of storage out of my unlimited and that would cost a lot with Dropbox.

I wonder what made them change their stance on this? They were so ambitions to push OneDrive.
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I don't think they're actually changing their stance - I think they always intended to do this. Step 1, release the apps with only One Drive, encourage people to use it. Folks who try it and like it are customers gained. Step 2, get all the folks who dislike OneDrive or have a heavy preference for Dropbox to also become 365 customers by offering Dropbox integration.

This thread is a perfect example of how many folks only started using OneDrive because of Office for iPad but now prefer it. They wouldn't have had that if they offered Dropbox right away. But this thread also has folks who will now buy subscriptions because of Dropbox. MS is maximizing profits this way.
 
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