[brightball]

This sums up the original HN post where several people made fun of Dropbox.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

They’ve done many acquisitions to expand functionality, tons of integrations, APIs, search and they do a very good job when they integrate those acquisitions too.

[silvestrov]

The first post says "this shouldn't be a product at all".

I'm not saying that. I'm saying that it should be a small focused company like FastMail or 37signals.

[brightball]

That’s how they started but it turns out that good syncing storage has a lot of potential integration points to create a more complete product.