[bad_user]

Is Dropbox supposed to be a better example? I find their homepage horrible.

"Dropbox is a modern workspace"

"Keep everything organized without breaking your flow"

I don't understand why these companies feel the need to describe their services in this way.

[callalex]

Because valuation of a software company doesn't come from the products they offer, nor the current user base with credit cards on file. It comes from a perceived potential growth/platform/network effect so all of these companies have to pretend that they will someday be a panopticon that commands your entire life in order to keep that sweet VC money flowing in even if they just repackage s3 with a nice client.

[golergka]

But that's a customer landing page, not "investors" page

[rrdharan]

Neither Dropbox nor Google is particularly concerned with courting VC money.

[callalex]

You're right. I should have just said "investor money"

[bunnycorn]

And then?

People know what Dropbox is, and people that don't know what Dropbox is, probably aren't going to buy Dropbox.

People don't land on Dropbox.com by chance.

In fact, when describing GDrive ir iCloud Drive or OneDrive, people say "it's like Dropbox".