

And others are just never adopting it in the first place because it is built into their OS or their app suite. Maybe a return to simplicity is it? But we moved away from the simple solution because it wasn't sufficent for our needs.

Dropbox needs to figure out how to stay in a commoditized market where their special sauce is being integrated into OSes and larger offerings (G-Suite.) This quora answer is irrelevant in the current context.

Box is really focused on enterprise solutions - lots of permissions, probably too much in my opinion but C-suite like that shit. We switched at our company from Dropbox to Google Drive Stream. Windows by default has cloud sync, macOS does as well. We are now in a different era.ĭropbox's functionality is now table stakes and not something new. This argument is a good one but it only covers the rise of Dropbox. > "But," you may ask, "so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. If they do, it is IE 6 at work that they are not allowed to upgrade. Most of the world doesn't sit in front of their browser all day. why not leverage the full power of the web? With HTML 5 you can drag and drop files, you can build intergalactic dashboards of stats showing how much storage you are using, you can publish your files as RSS feeds and tweets, and you can add your company logo!" "But," you may say, "folders are so 1995. Not a single person on Earth wakes up in the morning worried about deriving more value from their Windows Live login. "But," you may say, "this is valuable data.certainly users will feel more comfortable tying their data to Windows Live, Apple Mobile Me, or a name they already know." "But," you may ask, "so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. Why didn't anyone else build that? I have no idea. Well, let's take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do: Answering “Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?”: This seems like a good time to resurface the worlds best Quora answer, by Michael Wolfe.
