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by nihonde 3275 days ago
Dropbox Paper is the best implementation of collaborative text editor that I've ever used. I keep going back to it because it's easy to use. I never use Google Docs because Google's account management systems are such a hassle and I hate Material Design.
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This is absolutely critical. I have a few hundred gig of old data on a paid dropbox. Some old photos and videos etc. Lots of old Word documents.

But everything new I do is on Google Docs and Spreadsheets, which I love. All my photos now go to Google Photos.

The future seems to be google drive like web apps. Dropbox needs to get into this market. I hope Paper can expand...

While I agree that paper is great, I believe this product stemmed for an acquisition of Hackpad, a company with a nearly identical product.

I'm not saying acquisitions can't help them grow, but I wanted to make it clear that this stemmed from an acquisition.