i probably gonna get downvoted but i don't get their product. anything they offer you can find better/cheaper elsewhere (google docs, photos etc) or not really needed (paper)
They even offer it as just a daemon for linux if you want to install it in a server.
And for me, even on windows, the Dropbox client just seems so much more stable than Drive. It's very common for me to see Drive with a little "dead" icon, saying that it couldn't connect, and stopped trying, and I have no idea why.
Parent sounds nothing like those comments. Whereas you see people saying, “just glue together some ftp, rsync, a little SVN, and you’re golden!”, my take on what parent is saying is, “we have offerings from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Joe’s Online Storage, what makes Dropbox special again?”
The picture you try to portray is “no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame” and that’s not the case at all, I think it is a question worth considering.
I've been using Dropbox Pro for four years, and for me the biggest thing is does one or two things and does them well. It just works. I have a hierarchy on my file system that follows me wherever I go.
I have a few gripes about how it handles conflicts and cross platform issues like capitalization, but they are minor compared to the benefits.
I almost never downvote except for posts that are egregiously outside of HN community standards, and certainly wouldn't downvote you here. But your comment does seems pretty irrelevant to the issue of their IPO (for the record, I loathe Dropbox for political & technical reasons not pertinent here). If you're getting downvotes, it may not be because people disagree with you, but they might consider you're adding noise (as am I by commenting on your noise, admittedly)?
