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I think that is why Dropbox has been trying to diversify their offerings. They know as well as the rest of us do that cloud storage that's only cloud storage and not much else will have serious trouble competing with cloud storage that you also need to have to work conveniently with Google Docs, or Office 365, or whatever.

But, as parent poster pointed out, taking on that new work requires hiring people to do it. But that's expensive, and those new products need to start generating revenue quickly in order to cover the increased payroll costs.