And unless it tells us, it’s nearly impossible to know.ĭropbox, like most web companies, gives away a limited free version of its service when you just sign up. The question is, how many people are paying for its service? A privately held company, Dropbox won’t say how many people pay.
So far, Dropbox has convinced more than 500 million people and 200,000 businesses to sign up. And they’ve worked to become even more attractive to businesses by making it easier for teams of people to share files. They’ve made it so apps can connect with Dropbox to store and sync files across devices. They’ve added more than a dozen features, including specialized photo storage and document editing.
Since then, Houston and his team have been trying to prove Jobs wrong. Jobs declared Dropbox to be a “ feature, not a product.” Or, put another way, Jobs believed Dropbox didn’t have a future as a standalone company. Jobs wanted to buy the company, likely to integrate it with Apple’s own forthcoming file-syncing service.
But Apple’s co-founder wasn’t convinced Dropbox was destined for success.
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