![]() Those rival company launches haven't taken any toll Dropbox's growth. Houston says he is watching closely and listening, but largely unfazed. Apple’s iCloud has been out for a year and Google this August launched its own file storage offering, Google Drive. ![]() Big competitors, too, have come sprinting into the market to steal some of Dropbox's buzz if not customers. Since then, he’s been almost suspiciously quiet and the headlines surrounding his storage and file sharing site have not been steadily stellar.ĭropbox has been called the “problem child” of cloud security, which is a tough blow for a company trying to gain trust from its consumers users and more recently, the three million businesses that are using the service. That likely continues and eventually could push Dropbox's conversion rates higher thanks to a new feature that automatically uploads the snap-happy photos people take on their phones into their Dropbox accounts.Ī year ago we put Houston on the cover of Forbes in a story that put him and Dropbox in the echelons of great technology hit-makers. This has been buoyed by Dropbox’s partnerships with Samsung and HTC whereby the company’s technology is stitched into every phone, and more importantly every experience a phone buyer has when they set up their device. ![]() This summer the majority of sign ups started coming from mobile users (previously file sharing accounted for most sign ups). Other important trends are shifting at Dropbox.
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