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Comment by jwr | Hacker News Reader

I find it in poor taste to use Steve Jobs' name as a promotional tool. I see this done more and more and I don't think it's right.

They could have said "the startup that Apple wanted to buy", but that wouldn't have caught everyone's attention, right?

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Wouldn't it also have been incorrect? From memory (cant find source sorry) it was Steve who approached DB and opened discussion. Also considering his personality traits it probably was his decision to attempt to buy them over the collective wisdom of people at Apple.

NB if anyone has some source to the contrary please share it here.

Steve Jobs is one of my heroes.

He famously called a lot things 'shit' and many people 'shitheads.'

And yet he saw something special in Dropbox. I wanted to find out how Drew did it.

Given their security record, Dropbox probably deserved (and still deserves, especially because of the unchangeable unique client ID issue) to be described in those terms.

I think your expectations aren't properly calibrated, Dropbox's track record is stellar relative to the rest of the industry.

I'm not sure they deserve to be called 'shitheads' either - I do like the service - but I'm still disappointed in how poorly they've handled their security issues, particularly the one back in June.

I think I'd have a different opinion if they'd bothered to reply to any of my multiple emails to them at the time.

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