There is a very steep trendline toward near-zero pricing for file sync-and-share storage. Basically, giving away unlimited storage is now table stakes in the industry, as I said in June (see The price… Read more »
Number crunching leads to some not too surprising results for Microsoft’s Surface, which is increasingly looking like a boat anchor, pulling the company down. The company’s 8-K statement filed with the… Read more »
IBM and Apple have announced an industry-disrupting partnership to go after the enterprise. This is a direct shot across the bows of Microsoft, Google, and others who might have hoped to make… Read more »
Google is pushing hard to get into the enterprise. Yesterday, Google announced at the I/O conference a new version of Google Drive, the company’s file sync-and-share application. The new version — called… Read more »
I was working on a briefing for a client yesterday, and one trend I outlined was the file sync-and-share storage war, where I suggested that we are on a trend toward functionally… Read more »
The consensus of market watchers is that Amazon plans to debut a smartphone this week, attempting to break into a business that is dominated by Apple and Samsung. Or, looking at… Read more »
Dropbox continues its acquisition spree, this week pulling in MobileSpan, a provider of mobile apps for secure editing of Office documents behind corporate firewalls. This is clearly in line with Dropbox’s… Read more »
Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox, told the story last fall at Dreamforce about Steve Jobs’ effort to acquire Dropbox, and how Job was committed to ‘kill’ the company with iCloud. The… Read more »
The battle of the customer announcements has commenced. Following soon on the heels of Box’s disclosure that GE had selected that file sync-and-share solution over other alternatives (see Is the tide turning… Read more »
Two announcements made last week by Box, the file sync-and-share company, suggest that the company’s recent string of bad luck may be turning. First, and most importantly, Aaron Levie announced on… Read more »