On Tuesday morning in San Francisco, Dropbox’s founder and CEO Drew Houston firmly asserted “Sync is the new save. We’re never going back,” and with growth of 75 million new users in the less than a year it might seem possible that Dropbox has the capacity to completely change the way we store information.
Over 100,000 apps already run on the Dropbox platform, and looking to snag iOS users, Dropbox is adapting the Mailbox app to work with their Sync and Datastore APIs.
However, Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain has compared the hype around these announcements to the once vaunted concept of the paperless office that never materialised. Jain commented “I’ve been watching Dropbox’s news with not a small amout of amusement […] In my experience people will always need to have some of their files available through their computer hard drive for easy quick and secure access, not to mention those times when they can’t rely on, or don’t have, an internet connection.
Some online users have also expressed sceptcism about the system, particularly in light of the recent NSA scandal, expressing a reluctance to store personal information in the cloud.
