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by ryguytilidie 4723 days ago
Man, I really don't want to come off as a hater at all, but I never got the dropbox hype. They seriously have a developer conference now? Yikes.
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And this is what Hacker News is, now? And the first comment, to boot?
Dropbox is incredibly easy and convenient to use. It's very simple, and that's what makes it great. It's simple enough for almost anyone to use. I've pointed tech-unsavvy friends and family at Dropbox with great success. It's just a folder on your computer that magically syncs to all your other computers too.

Now, there's nothing in that which justifies having a developer conference. I definitely do not understand that. But the Dropbox service itself deserves the praise it gets.

I am with you on this one.

I only got dropbox installed on my PC because we needed to exchange some files with an external contractor that only used Dropbox.

As soon as the project was finished I removed it from my PC.

What about the Box and Twilio conferences?
it's become the hot thing for enterprise companies to host conferences. a good excuse to expense a weekend in california.