Dropbox has hit the 175-million-user mark, cofounder says
Back in November of last year, Drew Houston, the cofounder of the cloud company Dropbox, that, just over four years after its initial release, the platform had hit the 100-million-user mark. Now, less than a year later, team Dropbox says that number of users has risen to 175 million 鈥� with a staggering聽billion files synced each day.
Houston the new figure today at the company's developer conference, DBX, where he also announced plans to increase syncing compatibility across various devices, from smart phones to tablets.听
"[W]e want to be sure that stuff is always available, no matter if you鈥檙e on your laptop at work, a tablet on a plane, or a smartphone on the bus," Houston and his cofounder, Arash Ferdowsi,听 in a blog post this morning. "Keeping devices and apps synced with your most up-to-date info has gone from 'nice-to-have' to essential, which creates a real challenge for the people developing apps."聽
To that end, Dropbox will introduce a range of tools for developers, Houston and Ferdowsi .听
Dropbox, of course, has plenty of competition in the cloud service market. Amazon offers cloud storage options, as does聽Microsoft听(SkyDrive) and聽Apple听(iCloud). Earlier this year, in an attempt to lure more users to its Drive platform, Google said it would allow users to choose how they allocate storage between Gmail and Google Drive.听
"With this new combined storage space, you won鈥檛 have to worry about how much you鈥檙e storing and where. For example, maybe you鈥檙e a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2 GB in Gmail," Google's Clay Bavor聽聽at the time. "Now it doesn鈥檛 matter, because you can use your storage the way you want."聽
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