Ask HN: Should Apple buy Dropbox for seamless doc sharing on iPad?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293846

by jfi • 16 years ago

4 6 16 years ago

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I've read a lot of comments and reviews on the iPad. One of the major criticisms has been sharing documents and webpages between laptops, desktops, iPhones, and iPads. Should AAPL buy DropBox so it could offer a more seamless user experience?

glebk2• 16 years ago

Interesting comment because I've read that one of Apple's visions with their mobile devices is to get rid of the traditional hierarchical filesystem.

jfi2• 16 years ago

Oh really? I had not heard that, I'm going to have to google around for some articles on this, I'm interested to read up on it. Thanks for the heads up!

glebk2• 16 years ago

I was referring to what I read here: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/29/apple_reinvent... but let me know what you think.

evgen• 16 years ago

Why buy dropbox when it is cheaper and easier to just fix some of the problems with the existing MobileMe service? Stealing a page from dropbox and similar services, Apple should just make a basic MobileMe account free and let you buy additional services as needed. The service is already integrated into the desktop OS, it is partially integrated into the iPhone OS, and if they just added some polish and back-end resources they would have a decent start towards cutting off Google encroachment into their platform.

Ask HN: Should Apple buy Dropbox for seamless doc sharing on iPad?

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