Can't agree with you more. Not only for the reason of jealous. Let's do a no-brain estimate. Dropbox has:
1. A novel idea - $1M
2. A neat implementation - $10M
3. A reasonable size of user base (including one-time sign-in users and abandoned users) - $100M
4. Any state-of-the-art technology backed up? No
5. Any innovation which changes the whole industry or UX? No
6. Any system level software design? No
Where does the rest of the value come from? If this kind of system is worth $10B, then how much is AWS worth?
Box is aiming enterprise market which makes more sense, because if they can handle fine-grained user security, that will be a lot different. Basically, corporations need a
SkyDrive + SharePoint (hosted in cloud service)
if they don't want to host data in-house. Are there anything like this existing today?
If Dropbox is worth $10B today, what is that going be worthwhile?
We want to encourage new applications to make users life easier, but to a limited extent. We should encourage more productive inventions instead of being too much bragging on a piece of small app with some new functionality like this.
1. A novel idea - $1M
2. A neat implementation - $10M
3. A reasonable size of user base (including one-time sign-in users and abandoned users) - $100M
4. Any state-of-the-art technology backed up? No
5. Any innovation which changes the whole industry or UX? No
6. Any system level software design? No
Where does the rest of the value come from? If this kind of system is worth $10B, then how much is AWS worth?
Box is aiming enterprise market which makes more sense, because if they can handle fine-grained user security, that will be a lot different. Basically, corporations need a
SkyDrive + SharePoint (hosted in cloud service)
if they don't want to host data in-house. Are there anything like this existing today?
If Dropbox is worth $10B today, what is that going be worthwhile?
We want to encourage new applications to make users life easier, but to a limited extent. We should encourage more productive inventions instead of being too much bragging on a piece of small app with some new functionality like this.
- Eggs should not be washed.