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by ananddass 4697 days ago
Sorry, I should have added more references in that connected the dots better. A lot of capital and talent is flowing into solving the problem. Thus, we are likely to see some big shifts. --$4 billion invested into "business/office" software on iOS since 2010 http://readwrite.com/2013/06/25/a-new-golden-age-of-producti... --Mailbox's exit to Dropbox --Quip openly calling for a change to the word processor https://quip.com/blog/introducing-quip
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aroman 4697 days ago
Ah, thanks for the followup. So basically the point is that people are recognizing the problem isn't just a growing pain of early mobile adoption, but rather is a serious and fundamental problem that needs lots of money and effort to tackle (but which offers correspondingly massive rewards, they expect).
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jimbokun 4697 days ago
"--Mailbox's exit to Dropbox"

This article puts into perspective why this could be a potentially huge strategic play.

If you can convince people to use MailBox as their client, saving every attachment to DropBox by default, and continuing to push for DropBox integration in other iOS apps, DropBox could become the unofficial file system of iOS and the solution to the "complex workflows" cited in the article.

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