Comments on: Dropbox CEO: We’ll integrate with everything

By: RC-DC

RC-DC — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:12:28 +0000

I loved Dropbox, and miss it greatly. I felt I needed to find an alternative after reading about a bad security issue: http://zd.net/A4xvLy. I still use it for fluff (user manuals and such), but never for anything I consider personal or sensitive.

By: Mo

Mo — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 08:20:13 +0000

Get .25Gb extra free space, if you don’t already have a dropbox
account. Here is the link db.tt/iwMDvMb

By: Coert Coomans

Coert Coomans — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:49:23 +0000

RT @4psa: #Dropbox plans to integrate with everything, according to CEO: http://t.co/5cMVkMj3 #Cloud

By: TheDude

TheDude — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:11:16 +0000

see “VMWare, project octopus” I love DropBox, but the lack of LAN placement means I rely on Internet bandwidth. Vmware comes in a step ahead again. VMware also suggests a possible hybrid public and private solution.

By: SM

SM — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:31:10 +0000

Don’t forget about customers who aren’t individuals. At my university, many professors had Dropbox accounts paid for by the school and the university was considering getting some kind of enterprise Dropbox license so that faculty and students could better collaborate. Companies/organizations certainly have a different conversion rate and price structure than individual users.

By: Roberto Valerio

Roberto Valerio — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:18:04 +0000

@Michael, some number seems strange. Conversion rate should be way below 3%, I guess 1-2%. We are talking storage here and most of the users would never pay. Even Evernote has a conversion rate of only 3% and they add a lot of value to their product (and a crippled free version..)

And I would like to know how many of the users are active. I myself registered for 20 online storage services within the last 4 years and I am using only 2 of them.

But I guess taking 250m now is a good step for growth. Think of it: Even at 4% conversion rate they got 96% free users – and they use up to 8GB of free storage. They do not buy hardware, they send a big cheque every month to Amazon for S3 storage. So these customers are really expensive – and with steady and recurring costs. Growth in freemium models can take a lot of liquidity.

Still I think they will improve ..by focussing on company accounts. That’s where the money is! See Box.net and others…

By: DB

DB — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:12:10 +0000

That local storage is your hard drive dummy.

By: trip1ex

trip1ex — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:12:21 +0000

They should make a local storage product with their service on it.

By: blindman2k

blindman2k — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:06:37 +0000

The basic service is $9.99 per month and up from there. $120 per year per customer is not unreasonable. You can count me as one of them :)

By: S G Venkataraman

S G Venkataraman — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:09:28 +0000

I think you need to access all your content first. It will be hard to believe all the content will be in one place. It is going to be in facebook, picasa, dropbox, google docs, gmail, itunes, twitter, evernote, amazon cloud etc., etc.,

A service like Primadesk that gives a virtual view of all these content in one place will become an important part of solutions like the one Drew is talking about.