Dropbox Was Almost in iCloud

iCloud ’s here — utilitarian , without a rotation . ButForbes tells usit could have been something more , had Steve Jobs gotten his way with an $ 800 million buyout of Dropbox . Hell froze over and he did n’t . But what if ?

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accord toForbes ’ Victoria Barret , Jobs was rebuff by the scrappy startup ’s founding father , even with that carload of cash on the mesa . job , idle to being turned down — especially by a 26 year old — turned on the quintessential Apple charm :

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Jobs smile warmly as he told them he was going after their securities industry . “ He said we were a feature , not a product , ”

Part threat , part affront , all meant to pull the cloud storage firm into Apple ’s cakehole . Dropbox promontory honcho Drew Houston declined a second confluence with Jobs at the inauguration ’s HQ , reverence Apple espionage . He never get word from Steve again .

Apple then went on to announce , shoot a line , and release iCloud , a remote storage service that is n’t quite Dropbox at all . iCloud is the invisible maid , taking contacts and calendars , syncing them without a whisper , out of sight , out of mind . Dropbox is a G - stuffed rucksack you may send anywhere stuffed with anything . Movies , music , scene , programs — anything . The ethos of each seem almost at betting odds ; iCloud is to be reverse on and forgotten , Dropbox , a weathered part of your digital toolkit .

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So what did Jobs have in mind ? We wo n’t screw . It ’s dubitable Apple needed the infrastructure — they already have themammoth North Carolina datum heart and soul .

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So then maybe Jobs stand for exactly what he say — Dropbox was meant to be a feature , not a standalone apparatus . Perhaps it would ’ve been the Modern iDrive — conspicuously absent from iCloud — allowing us to move anything we desire between any computer and iOS gadget we own . Perfectly integrated into OS X. This would have been killer . Drop a movie into the iCloud - ified Dropbox folder on your computer , and watch it beamed to your Apple TV and iPad , while knowing it ’s stored safely , remotely , perpetually .

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