[fab13n]

> I'm a little bummed. I thought [...] they would be around for a while.

Supposing that they don't butcher the migration, what Snapjoy service do you love, which wouldn't benefit from a close integration with Dropbox?

My only beef with Dropbox is that the gap between free users and paid customers is too wide, price wise. I understand that customers have to subsidize the hordes of freeloaders, but $120 a year for 100GB doesn't feel right. Maybe they shouldn't try to be profitable yet.

Other than that, they've successfully sneaked a usable file system in iOS, they support all my devices including Linux, they "just work" unless you try to share writing rights, and they're going to get us rid of the dreadful iTunes, iPhoto and no doubt one day iBook/Kindle. That's super impressive.

[justincormack]

Do you think they should start to limit the free tier? I have never paid but do find it useful. On the other hand Google docs which I do pay for covers some of my use cases and I would self host if there was a standard api.

[fab13n]

I think they should:

* either lower the entry price and limit the features of the free version if they need to be profitable now, getting more paying customers with a lower ARPU;

* or lower the entry price a lot, lose money and increase both free and paying market-share, if market-share is their current priority.

But the current gap from free to paying is too damn high IMO.