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i probably gonna get downvoted but i don't get their product. anything they offer you can find better/cheaper elsewhere (google docs, photos etc) or not really needed (paper)

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To the user Dropbox is completely, 100% transparent. It is just another folder on their computer.

That is he magic of Dropbox and what people missed in the infamous Hacker News first post.

Dropbox is the only major cloud drive service that offers official Linux app. That beats everything else for me.

They even offer it as just a daemon for linux if you want to install it in a server.

And for me, even on windows, the Dropbox client just seems so much more stable than Drive. It's very common for me to see Drive with a little "dead" icon, saying that it couldn't connect, and stopped trying, and I have no idea why.

Well it was the first. Mega has a Linux client. It's a different service though; full end-to-end encryption.

You should try to be a bit more open-minded. You sound a lot like the posters here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

nothing to do with open-minded. simply checking advantages vs alternatives.

I've been using Dropbox Pro for four years, and for me the biggest thing is does one or two things and does them well. It just works. I have a hierarchy on my file system that follows me wherever I go.

I have a few gripes about how it handles conflicts and cross platform issues like capitalization, but they are minor compared to the benefits.

Parent sounds nothing like those comments. Whereas you see people saying, “just glue together some ftp, rsync, a little SVN, and you’re golden!”, my take on what parent is saying is, “we have offerings from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Joe’s Online Storage, what makes Dropbox special again?”

The picture you try to portray is “no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame” and that’s not the case at all, I think it is a question worth considering.

The parent is also suggesting cobbling together multiple different products (google docs, photos etc) in order to replace dropbox...

All those google products are contained within the Drive client now, and could act exactly like a dropbox folder if the user doesn't do any setup.

I almost never downvote except for posts that are egregiously outside of HN community standards, and certainly wouldn't downvote you here. But your comment does seems pretty irrelevant to the issue of their IPO (for the record, I loathe Dropbox for political & technical reasons not pertinent here). If you're getting downvotes, it may not be because people disagree with you, but they might consider you're adding noise (as am I by commenting on your noise, admittedly)?

> Dropbox has been willing to get their hands dirty in their pursuit of user-friendliness since day one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13742251

Props to those for whom this finally pays off!

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