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Comment by qompiler | Hacker News Reader

Just because someone is a professional online ranter it doesn't mean they are always right.

Likewise, just because some people (a lot of people?) like dropbox et al., that doesn't mean it's revolutionary or killer or whatever. It just means a lot of people like it.

I have a basic understanding of what dropbox is. I've never used it. Never even been to their website. I don't care about synchronizing files. I suspect I'm not in the minority.

College students use Dropbox as a means of keeping backups, as an online thumb drive and sharing work with each other.

There was even a "college space race" to get more storage a while back, https://www.dropbox.com/spacerace

They have over 100 million users, and then of course there is Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive, etc. I've convinced several non-techie folks to use Dropbox once they realize it replaces the need for flash drives (which of course can get lost). So it's not so much "file synchronization" that was the killer app for some, but rather "accessing and storing/backing up files in the cloud."

It his hard and unreliable to get G Drive to sync files. Google does backup from your PC to web, and it downloads bookmarks from web to PC.

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx_mobile.html

100 million account (including me)

4 million paying customers.

Which means, almost none of MS's customers.

Incidentally I have a dropbox account and the daemon is always running in the background but it's kinda useless for me as I only have one machine. I don't access my dropbox from any other machine.

I bet you did not create StackOverflow nor have a successful company.

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