<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Andrew Brunner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atbrunner@aurawin.com" target="_blank">atbrunner@aurawin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
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I disagree. I think most people are willing to think different. The first come first serve is probably best disproved by MySpace vs Facebook and in turn Facebook vs Google. People are free to make choices. Otherwise you will have nothing but stagnation.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I didn't meant that people wouldn't go to another service, but it is true that Dropbox has a lot of inertia and the alternatives do not offer anything important to switch. Personally in all cases i know, they offer worse - Dropbox is available in all major desktop OSes and mobile platforms, has a very simple and intuitive setup and website, integrates with the desktop even if you use something non-mainstream like Linux with LXDE, has very good network usage with delta compression and such which is very important if you use 3G, etc... i simply haven't seen all these features combined in other similar services.<br>
<br>And with the folder sharing and the last feature they added with APIs for developers to use they're also developing a strong "network effect" which will make it harder for people to switch to somewhere else.<br>
<br></div><div>Also i'm not sure if people *always* switch to better alternatives. Case in point: ICQ vs MSN. When MSN was introduced, ICQ was superior. But MSN came with Windows :-).<br></div></div></div></div>