| ▲ | stringfood 4 hours ago | |
Problem is most consumers and businesses would rather pay for 1 product that does 7 things ok than 7 products that do 1 thing great each. The former is cheaper and often is easier to cross-integrate - I'd rather just use AWS or GCP storage options than ever touch drop box | ||
| ▲ | thewebguyd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> would rather pay for 1 product that does 7 things ok than 7 products that do 1 thing great each See Microsoft/Office 365. Aggressive bundling means one license gets you literally everything. Sure, it's all mediocre but it checks boxes and is largely "good enough." No reason to go out and buy slack, zoom, box.com/dropbox, 3rd party email gateways, 3rd party EDR, DLP, an MDM, etc. Microsoft will sell you whatever "checks boxes" product you need under one license and cheaper than buying separately. | ||
| ▲ | hellisothers 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Yea, Dropbox was a pretty good DSLR camera, problem was everybody has a mobile phone now… | ||
| ▲ | dessimus 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I mean yeah, who would rather spend time at their job helping other users figure out how to include the right add-in for Dropbox to work with their various apps vs how Office integrates with OneDrive or Google Mail, Sheets, et al. integrates with Drive? Thus adding another layer of software to manage updates, etc. At some point, there is an opportunity cost to using siloed products, especially for something that's become relatively commoditized like cloud storage. | ||