Is Dropbox about to launch their Android app?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/84655/android-app.png
I saw this in Google reader this morning, but the post no longer exists. Letting the cat out of the bad too soon?
I saw this in Google reader this morning, but the post no longer exists. Letting the cat out of the bad too soon?
I'm really impressed with dropbox. Traditionally I've just used my own Subversion set up. But recently I was having difficulty helping to explain version control to a few fellow university students who couldn't grasp the whole central repository thing (fair enough, these were humanities students I was talking to and they just wanted to know how to keep their thesis safe and to make sure they didn't venture into versioning hell).
As a last resort I recommended dropbox, and it took less than 10 minutes to explain the whole thing end to end and have them all get started. Now all of them are raving about it and recommending it to friends.
What I realise is not only how good the dropbox interface is (pretty much invisible) but also how something that we techies take for granted still hasn't reached the mass market, and how with a little re-packaging and thought around their use case people gleefully buy-in... this is the tech they've been waiting for.
The iPhone app was one of the things that sold it to the students. None of them have an iPhone, but they were all of the same though, "But if I get one I'll be OK".
So I'm sure the android app will help in the same way, as would a Windows Mobile one should that surface.
I'm rambling... just impressed by how effective drop box is at communicating and selling something we've all taken for granted years ago.
Coincidence? We shall see...