...flujo de trabajo del usuario. ¿Cómo debería ser una aplicación de correo moderna? Aquí hablaríamos de tres principios: potente, sencilla y adaptable. Combinar conceptos tan antagónicos – al menos los dos primeros – puede confundir a quien plantee la aplicación desde cero, pero no a quien esté diseñándola sabiendo abstraer lo que el usuario necesita y lo que debe ofrecer. Con Mail, Apple ofreció una solución sencilla, con ciertas posibilidades pero poco adaptable. Outlook ha sabido ver aquellos puntos débiles y tentar a los usuarios para conseguir ese hueco en el dock de su dispositivo iOS. La aplicación facilita la instalación de casi todos los servicios más utilizados hoy en día: Exchange, Outlook.com, OneDrive, iCloud, Google, Yahoo!, Dropbox y Box. La filosofía de trabajo consiste en una Bandeja de Entrada compartida por todas las cuentas, aunque podemos seleccionar cualquier de ellas para trabajar con alguna de forma independiente. Uno de los puntos fuertes – aunque no sea una novedad rabiosa dentro de estos clientes – es la priorización del correo que nos llega, por “Prioritario” y “Otros”. Lo interesante aquí es que no existen muchas etiquetas de entrada, cosa que personalmente agradezco. Microsoft se ha centrado en “lo importante” y “el resto”. La elección de estos correos en cada una de estas categorías es fruto de un...
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...Dropbox - Inicio rápido ¿Qué es Dropbox? Dropbox es un software que enlaza a todas tus computadoras mediante de una sola carpeta. Es la manera más fácil de respaldar y sincronizar archivos entre computadoras. • La aplicación Dropbox para escritorio es un software que observa a una carpeta en tu computadora de escritorio y sincroniza cualquier modificación que ocurra en ella con la web y con otras computadoras. El sitio web de Dropbox te permite acceder a tus archivos en cualquier computadora con un navegador web. Puedes también utilizar el sitio web de Dropbox para compartir tus archivos o carpetas con otras personas. El sitio web de Dropbox para móviles y las apps de Dropbox te permiten conectarte a tu Dropbox desde tu bolsillo, y así poder llevarte tus archivos adondequiera que vayas. • • ¿Es para mí? La transferencia de datos entre computadoras por lo general requiere subir datos mediante formularios web, conectándose a unidades de red, teniendo a mano memorias USB, y enviándote a tí mismo y a otros adjuntos por correo electrónico. Con Dropbox todos estos métodos se vuelven obsoletos. Si estás buscando una mejor manera de transferir datos por Internet o si sólo buscas una manera de aumentar la productividad de tu equipo de trabajo, Dropbox es para ti. Añadir archivos a tu Dropbox Has encontrado tu carpeta de Dropbox, y ya deseas comenzar a utilizarla. Movamos un archivo a tu carpeta de Dropbox. Paso 1 Arrastra y suelta un archivo en tu Dropbox. Paso 2...
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...Dropbox: “It Just Works” Have you ever been in the library or away from your computer and realized that you’ve forgotten the USB drive at home so that you are stuck with no way to get your documents? Drew Houston wanted to get rid of that reoccurring problem people were facing so he created Dropbox. This service allows users and businesses to share information, documents, and reports anywhere, without the use of a USB or jump drive. Houston always strived to exceed expectations throughout his life, so after about 2 years of Dropbox being on the market, he was already thinking of how to expand and grow the company. Houston’s next problem was whether or not Dropbox should continue selling one product or if they should segment their user base and produce differentiated products. I personally have had the same problem of forgetting or losing my USB drive at home when I need to print a report out at school. I don’t know why this invention wasn’t thought of or created before 2007. This is a game changing invention because now I can share documents or files with not just one person, but many different people at once. Dropbox allows me to never have to worry about my USB drive again. Drew Houston was headed for success the day he was born. At the age of five he was already writing software and testing games, which led him to his first job as a network engineer. Someone with this much passion for technology was destined to end up earning a degree from MIT, in which he did...
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...Team no: 13 Writeup Mustahid ali and Sachin Singh DROPBOX: “It Just Works” CASE SYNOPSIS: Dropbox, founded in April 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, officially launched in September 2008. Drew Houston, is he co-founder and CEO of dropbox, a downloadable application that allowed users to easily share, sync, and store files (photos, documents, videos,ets) across most personal computers and smart phones. The company headquarter is in San Francisco, California. Dropbox is a venture-backed Silicon Valley start up, founded in 2006, that provides online storage and backup services to millions of customers using a "freemium" (free + premium offers) business model. The case recounts Dropbox's history from conception through mid-2010, when founder/CEO Drew Houston must make strategic decisions about new product features which are rigorously demanded by the users, how to target enterprise customers, and whether to pursue distribution deals with smartphone manufacturers. Drew Houston graduated from MIT and Ferdowsi dropped out of Harvard to co-found company. The idea was simple but very tough to execute, apart from this they already have around 80 competitors in the market and Mozy , Carbonite was doing very well even they are on the first position. Despite this they were confident that while entering a competitive market they could succeed. The first generation of cloud storage services was based on simplistic model, where file accesses were redirected over the internet instead...
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...Dropbox-Schnellstart Was ist Dropbox? Dropbox ist ein kostenloser Service, mit dem du alle deine Fotos, Dokumente und Videos immer zur Hand hast. Alle Dateien, die du in deiner Dropbox speicherst, werden auch automatisch auf allen deinen Computern, Handys und sogar auf der Dropbox-Website gespeichert. Das bedeutet, dass du auf deinem Computer in der Schule oder im Büro mit deiner Arbeit beginnen und sie auf deinem Computer zu Hause fertigstellen kannst. Jetzt musst du dir nie wieder eine Datei an deine eigene E-Mail-Adresse schicken! Der Dropbox-Ordner Wenn du Dropbox auf deinem Computer installiert, wird ein Dropbox-Ordner erstellt. Da du diesen Leitfaden liest, hattest du offensichtlich keine Probleme, deinen Dropbox-Ordner zu finden. Dieser Ordner funktioniert wie alle anderen Ordner auf deinem Computer, mit einer Besonderheit. Jede Datei, die du in deinem Dropbox-Ordner speicherst, wird auch auf allen deinen anderen Computern, Handys und der Dropbox-Website gespeichert. Auf deiner Dropbox siehst du ein grünes Symbol, das dir Informationen über deine Dropbox gibt: Grüner Kreis mit Haken: Alle Dateien in deiner Dropbox sind auf dem aktuellen Stand. Blauer Kreis mit Pfeilen: Dateien in deiner Dropbox werden gerade aktualisiert. Deiner Dropbox Dateien hinzufügen Schritt 1 Zieh' eine Datei in deinen Dropbox-Ordner und lege sie dort ab. Schritt 2 Das blaue Symbol weist darauf hin, dass deine Datei mit Dropbox synchronisiert wird. Und das war's auch schon! Das...
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...Dropbox’s current business model Freemium Dropbox utilizes a freemium model that offered both free and premium accounts. To be clear, the users can get the basic services for fee, and they can get more features, functions or storage for a fee. Initially, any one can register a Dropbox account for free to become a user. Each Dropbox user can use 2GB storage space to store any files such as photos, videos, music and Microsoft document files etc. Through any devices such as laptops, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android phone, files can instant synchronization and accessed without internet. With a sharing folder, user can easily share data with other people, even if people do not have Dropbox account can also access the shared file by clicking the share link. User no longer have to worry about files will disappear, in addition to historical versions stored function, when a user accidentally deleted files, he or she can recover accidentally deleted files within 30 days. When upgrade to Dropbox Pro, user need to pay $9.99 per month and get 1TB (about 1000GB) storage space. In addition to all the features of the free version, Dropbox Pro’s user can set a password to protect files and decide who can access the file. In summery, Dropbox has a number of core values such as easy of use, sync files across different devices, security, file recovery and simple sharing, thus, more and more people begin to understand the convenience of Dropbox, which increased the number of users. [1] ...
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...per user B2B accounts. They sell for $15/user while Google is $120/user (have to get all Google drive apps), and Microsoft’s OneDrive is $30/user. http://core0.staticworld.net/assets/2014/10/01/cloud_storage_services_data.pdf Weaknesses: Limited User Account control features – makes IT departments uneasy about using a cloud system they can’t control the use of. http://www.business2community.com/cloud-computing/6-reasons-dropbox-isnt-secure-enough-business-0795298 Glitches and bugs: It is a common story where dropbox files are randomly getting deleted. Requires an online backup for an online backup. http://www.gordonmeyer.com/2014/05/dropbox-deleted-my-files-by-itself.html Weak security comparatively http://online-storage-service-review.toptenreviews.com/ Opportunities: Dropbox’s ease of file-sharing opens up many social-network opportunities. They can expand into the way you upload images to instagram, for example. This, if done properly, could tack on additional security for those sites. http://aptonic.github.io/frenzy/ Dropbox could look for contracts with mobile providers like HTC. By doing so they would be the...
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...usar Dropbox: 1 2 3 4 Preserva la seguridad de tus archivos Lleva tus archivos a todas partes Envía archivos de gran tamaño Colabora en archivos ¡Te damos la bienvenida a Dropbox! inicio 1 Preserva la seguridad de tus archivos Dropbox te permite guardar fotos, documentos, videos y otros tipos de archivos en un mismo lugar y crear una copia de seguridad automáticamente. Por lo tanto, si tu computadora se daña o extravías tu teléfono en el autobús, tus archivos permanecerán seguros. Agregar archivos a tu Dropbox En Windows o Mac 1. Asegúrate de haber instalado la aplicación para escritorio en tu computadora. 2. Arrastra los archivos y suéltalos en la carpeta de Dropbox. Así de simple. WINDOWS MAC continúa inicio En dropbox.com 1. Inicia sesión en dropbox.com. 2. Haz clic en el botón Cargar de la parte superior de la ventana. 3. Selecciona el archivo que deseas agregar y haz clic en Abrir. 4. O bien, solo arrastra y suelta los archivos directamente en tu navegador de Internet. En iOS o Android 1. Toca el icono de menú Más acciones (…) en la esquina superior derecha. 2. Selecciona Cargar archivo (en iOS) o Cargar aquí (en Android). 3. Selecciona la ubicación desde la que deseas cargar los archivos. 4. Selecciona los archivos que deseas agregar y toca Cargar. IOS ANDROID continúa inicio 2 Lleva tus archivos a todas partes Guarda tus fotos y documentos en Dropbox y accede...
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...Executive summary Dropbox 是一项免费的服务，可帮您把照片、文档和视频携带到任何地方，轻松地进行共享。Dropbox 是由 Drew Houston 和 Arash Ferdowsi 在 2007 年创立的。这两位创始人是麻省理工学院的学生，他们厌倦了登录不同的电脑来处理通过电子邮件发送给自己的文件，依此灵感而成立了本公司。 Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, and client software. Dropbox allows users to create a special folder on each of their computers, which Dropbox then synchronizes so that it appears to be the same folder (with the same contents) regardless of which computer is used to view it. Files placed in this folder also are accessible through a website and mobile phone applications. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, as a Y Combinator startup company. Feasibility study Is it technical feasible? Dropbox provides client software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS and web browsers, as well as unofficial ports to Symbian, Windows Phone, and MeeGo. Is there a market? Dropbox has received a total venture capital funding of US$257.2 million from several investors, including Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, and Accel Partners. In 2011, tech entrepreneur Praveen Yajman speculated that Dropbox's valuation was more than $1 billion.[27] TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, and Financial Post speculated that Dropbox's valuation could be up to $5 to $10 billion. Dropbox's 2011 revenue was expected to be $240 million. Dropbox is based in San...
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...Dropbox - Inicio rápido ¿Qué es Dropbox? Dropbox es un software que enlaza a todas tus computadoras mediante de una sola carpeta. Es la manera más fácil de respaldar y sincronizar archivos entre computadoras. • La aplicación Dropbox para escritorio es un software que observa a una carpeta en tu computadora de escritorio y sincroniza cualquier modificación que ocurra en ella con la web y con otras computadoras. El sitio web de Dropbox te permite acceder a tus archivos en cualquier computadora con un navegador web. Puedes también utilizar el sitio web de Dropbox para compartir tus archivos o carpetas con otras personas. El sitio web de Dropbox para móviles y las apps de Dropbox te permiten conectarte a tu Dropbox desde tu bolsillo, y así poder llevarte tus archivos adondequiera que vayas. • • ¿Es para mí? La transferencia de datos entre computadoras por lo general requiere subir datos mediante formularios web, conectándose a unidades de red, teniendo a mano memorias USB, y enviándote a tí mismo y a otros adjuntos por correo electrónico. Con Dropbox todos estos métodos se vuelven obsoletos. Si estás buscando una mejor manera de transferir datos por Internet o si sólo buscas una manera de aumentar la productividad de tu equipo de trabajo, Dropbox es para ti. Añadir archivos a tu Dropbox Has encontrado tu carpeta de Dropbox, y ya deseas comenzar a utilizarla. Movamos un archivo a tu carpeta de Dropbox. Paso 1 Arrastra y suelta un archivo en tu Dropbox. Paso 2...
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...Dropbox: “It Just Works” (HBS 9-811-065) Kunal Sharma Advanced Entrepreneurship March 11, 2013 100410018 Word Count: 854 Question 1 a) The reason that Dropbox is such a universal concept is because anyone in the world can be a buyer of Dropbox. It can be an individual trying to save and access their pictures on different platforms or it can be a multinational firm who uses the product as a “file collaboration” software within the firm. “The idea is to get people using it inside companies without IT’s permission. Once IT sees that Dropbox is in heavy demand and that it works reliably, we’ll get certified for use across the company.” (Pg3, P3, Dropbox: it just work’s, 2012). So basically the buyer can literally be anyone with a need for easy access to storage of data across multiple platforms. Usually in other industries the buyers would be a small group of people or companies for whom the product was specifically made and marketed for, as well as each industry tries to capture a part of the market share. Whereas in terms of Dropbox, as we can see that the buyers differ in a way that anyone can become one as the service is offered free of charge for users who do not wish to store too much data. Identifying buyers is one of the key steps of opportunity assessment. In order to see whether if a product or service will have sales depends on its buyers and if they exist or not, if a product or service is launched and there is not a real need for it then that product will...
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...KRIPALI VIKRAM DROPBOX CASE STUDY – COURSEWORK 2 Question 1 Houston …got the idea for Dropbox while waiting for a bus at Boston’s South Station in December 2006.” (P1 of case study – final paragraph). a) Do you think Dropbox was a creative idea? Please state your reasons. Creativity is not inventing or discovering something completely new. It is the ability to generate new concepts and ideas by combining, reapplying and regenerating existing ideas. There may be some creative ideas that surpass the imagination of a normal individual but there are some that are just simple and practical but haven’t been accomplished by other people (Arrington, 2010). Although the concept for cloud storage had been around for a decade no company was successful in creating a technology that was simple and efficient. Drew Houston, applied creativity and ingenuity to existing ideas and technologies to create a practical product, Dropbox, which is now used worldwide. b) Is creativity a necessary criterion for entrepreneurial success? At the heart of any enterprise there is creativity and innovation. Astute entrepreneurship rises from finding unique opportunities or turning existing concepts into extraordinary successes. No entrepreneur or enterprise, however successful can retain their status without recognizing the need to change and create new opportunities and products to retain customers and eliminate competition. For instance Christopher Lewis realized that when people...
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...Dropbox Quick Start What is Dropbox? Dropbox is software that links all of your computers together via a single folder. It’s the easiest way to back up and sync files between computers. The Dropbox Desktop Application is software that watches a folder on your desktop computer and syncs any changes to the web and to your other computers. The Dropbox Website allows you to access your files on any computer from a web browser. You can also use the Dropbox website to share your files or folders with others. The Dropbox mobile website and Dropbox for mobile devices allow you to connect to your Dropbox from your pocket, so you can take your files with you wherever you go. Is it for me? Transferring data between computers usually requires uploading via web forms, connecting to network drives, carrying around thumb drives, or sending emails with attachments to yourself and others. Dropbox makes all of these methods obsolete. If you're looking for a better way to transfer data over the internet or are just looking for a way to improve productivity within your team, Dropbox is for you. Adding files to your Dropbox You've found your Dropbox folder, and you're ready to start using it. Let's move a file to your Dropbox folder. Step 1: Drag and drop a file into your Dropbox. Step 2: The blue icon means your file is syncing with Dropbox. That’s it! The green icon means that your file has finished syncing and is now available from your other computers and the website. Now that Dropbox...
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...Dropbox: Novel Innovation or Economic Genius? A Comprehensive Analysis on Electronic Storage. University of California, Los Angeles Engineering 110, Fall 2012 1 Introduction to the File Sharing Industry and Dropbox In an era in which the large majority of information is stored electronically, companies that specialize in online file sharing and cloud storage services feast upon massive consumer demand for remote data storage. By 2011, many of the largest technology companies had already created storage services: Amazon Cloud Drive by Amazon, iCloud by Apple, and Google Drive by Google. Other companies providing similar consumer and enterprise services include Scribd, Mozy, Box, and Carbonite. However, none of these services could have hoped to mirror the success of Dropbox. Founded by Drew Houston (an MIT computer science graduate) in 2007 as a Y Combinator startup, Dropbox was considered “a late entrant to the fiercely competitive online backup and storage services space.” (Eisenmann et al., 2012, p. 2) Y Combinator, a California LLC that financially seeds promising startups in exchange for a small amount of the company’s equity, provided $15,000 to Dropbox. Houston’s endeavor soon grew at an astonishing rate. As of 2011, according to a Dropbox engineer, the company backed up 1 million files every 15 minutes, much more than what storage services created before could achieve. From the outset, Dropbox has been immensely successful. In fact, Dropbox was so promising that Apple’s Steve ...
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...Pricing at Dropbox In this case, we are asked to provide Dropbox some recommendations in order to address three major issues: the customer growth in B2C and B2B markets, the free-topay user conversion and the competitive threats. First, it is important to describe how each of these issues came about and why they are critical for Dropbox going forward. When A. Ferdowsi and D. Houston launched Dropbox in 2007, they knew that getting business customers would be tough due to bureaucratic delays in getting them to integrate the services into their operations. Another problem was that getting individuals to pay for Dropbox was hard because mainstream consumers were still not used to using cloud-storage services. To overcome that, they first focused on the individual consumer market (rather than corporate clients) and adopted a new pricing concept called “Freemium” which consists in giving away basic services for free (and thus only charging for premium versions). By coupling this “free way” to try the service with an efficient incentive program allowing people to get free storage upgrades, Dropbox was able to hold a large share of the consumer cloud storage market but also to indirectly penetrate the corporate world. Indeed, Houston’s goal was to get individuals to use and like Dropbox so much that they, in turn, got their employers to sign up as well. All this worked so well that they grew from 4 million users in 2010 to 200 million in 2013. The next step for Dropbox was...
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