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by kposehn 5164 days ago
Ok, that is a good point - there's certainly some instances I'm not familiar with such as the one you cite.

I'm still dubious, especially due to the market penetration Dropbox has, but I guess we'll see :)

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Dropbox has little "market penetration" in the overall market of MS Office buyers.

Dropbox is familiar to us and the circles we are in, but that doesn't mean it has any traction at all among the middle-America soccer moms using MS Word to make flyers for little league or the pet shelter. (The recent photo sync update should help with this.)

Techies typically "misunderestimate" the traction of entrenched tools among normals and the value of building add-ons for those entrenched tools.