“If you went back to literally the original Finder, it’s the same experience,” says Houston.
But Dropbox’s lack of a user-facing interface it could truly call its own has also been confining, especially as the service has built itself into something that’s about much more than raw online storage.Īfter all, Windows’ File Explorer and MacOS’s Finder haven’t changed much-and certainly aren’t optimized for the the sort of workplace collaboration that propelled Dropbox to its IPO last year. The service, which he was inspired to create as an MIT student-the eureka moment came on a bus trip to New York when he’d forgotten his trusty thumb drive at home-has grown to serve more than a half-billion users and 400,000-plus business teams. Quietly living inside file managers built by operating-system companies “served us well,” says Dropbox CEO and cofounder Drew Houston. Beyond a few right-click menu items for features such as sharing links to files, there was little evidence of all the heavy lifting it was doing in the background. But Dropbox integrated so tightly with a variety of computing platforms, and synced data so reliably, that you didn’t have to give it much thought.
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The service, which debuted in 2008, was far from the first to put a hard drive in the cloud, having been preceded by the likes of i-drive, X-drive, Driveway, and Microsoft’s OneDrive (née SkyDrive, née Windows Live Folders).
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