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Dropbox is a very good short term solution but I do think ultimately iCloud, Google's upcoming service, and Microsoft's SkyDrive will win-out. Being cross platform is an asset today but we're clearly moving towards a world where the cost of using multiple platform is just too high for most people. They will stick within the same ecosystem because it's just much easier.

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Even if every person picks one "platform" (e.g. All Apple products with iCloud) and sticks with it, they still need to share files with each other, so there's still a need for Dropbox (or more generally, cross-platform file syncing).

Agreed. You may end up going with one platform, but I'll never have all my collaborators on my platform of choice.

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