<story><title>The New Dropbox Sucks</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/06/13/dropbox-sucks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tschwimmer</author><text>Disclosure: I am a former Dropbox employee. The below is my own opinion. I don&amp;#x27;t have a financial interest in Dropbox.&lt;p&gt;Gruber (implicitly) proves why this is the right move for Dropbox in the space of a few paragraphs.&lt;p&gt;Many people only use Dropbox as a backup and file share product. That&amp;#x27;s great. However, it&amp;#x27;s a terrible business, especially for Dropbox. Backup (and to a large extent) sharing is a commodity product where companies like Google, Amazon and Apple have a massive advantage in terms of scale and in Apple&amp;#x27;s case, OS integration. Easily moving over to iCloud Drive is exactly why Dropbox cannot build their business around that sort of feature.&lt;p&gt;You know what isn&amp;#x27;t a commodity? A single place for all your digital stuff. The big players there are actually disincentivized to build interoperability. iCloud is a product differentiator for Apple, they&amp;#x27;re not about to build a first class integration for Android and Windows and Google Sheets. Dropbox has the advantage of being platform agnostic. They&amp;#x27;ve spent the last few years building out a dizzying suite of integrations to make this &amp;quot;single place&amp;quot; vision a reality.&lt;p&gt;So yes, it may not be what you want if you&amp;#x27;re a backup user, but if you&amp;#x27;re a business with digital assets scattered across a dozen surfaces and products, this could be very valuable to you.</text></comment>
<story><title>The New Dropbox Sucks</title><url>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/06/13/dropbox-sucks</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hunter23</author><text>I think the Dropbox announcement is a sign that the enterprise has superceded consumer as the 1st priority for Dropbox executives.&lt;p&gt;This makes sense, as essentially they wanted a 10 billion+ valuation and the consumer market wasn&amp;#x27;t big enough to get to that valuation. The problem is their enterprise products don&amp;#x27;t look look much better than their competitors while their consumer product (sync a folder) was best in class...&lt;p&gt;If dropbox hadn&amp;#x27;t raised so much money they could have stuck to their core vision. Instead they will have to compete into the crowded world of mediocre SAAS products that duct tape different solutions together badly.&lt;p&gt;All because they wanted that sweet VC money so they could have a $100K chrome bear in their office and dropbox branded water in their fridges...</text></comment>