[joejohnson]

So Dropbox is becoming a more-direct competitor with iCloud. Meh.

I'd rather they work on an end-to-end encryption system with a focus on ease of use.

[Afforess]

Hacker News is a tiny audience. I don't see any business sense in focusing on features that 0.1% of users want.

[albertyw]

Not to sound self-righteous, but the HN audience (or more plausibly, some subset within) has a high influence on what the rest of the world sees and wants.

Any Dropbox employees read HN?

[iamclovin]

I think this is exactly the direction they should take.

[afarrell]

If they did want to serve this audience, they would actually want to make it easy for someone (possibly the employees themselves) to build a Free encryption layer on top of them.