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> Box seems to have a lock on the enterprise market which feels like the better long-term strategy than being a consumer/startup brand.

Yet box only makes about $48 per user per year, whereas Dropbox makes $111 per year. So either Dropbox has more enterprise than we think, or consumer is a lot more valuable than we think.

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Maybe Dropbox is serving mostly smaller companies, which have just a few users are therefore not so price sensitive. If you have five guys, then it's still just like $50-100 per month, not really worth the effort to start thinking how to save money on that.

If you are an enterprise with tens or few hundred users, the monthly bill starts to be in a range where it actually makes sense for somebody to spend a few hours to see if you could cut it by xx%.

I know that Facebook moved to Dropbox from Box for internal use.

Let it be known that Mark Zuckerberg and Drew Houston are best friends. I know it might not be the main reason, but it is something to consider.

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