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by Vampiero 548 days ago
Cloud storage before all the major cloud players were even a thing, for starters?
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Sure, that was a great feature in 2007. (S3 existed when Dropbox was founded, FWIW.)

It eventually stopped being a differentiating source of value, and trying to out-commodity the CSP’s on storage cost at scale seems like a bad strategy to bring value back to the product. At tremendous effort you make it possible to lower prices by 20% or whatever, in order to keep the same profit on an undifferentiated product. Who cares?