{"id":404,"date":"2011-08-14T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T13:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=404"},"modified":"2020-08-20T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T10:05:06","slug":"its-all-fun-until-you-become-an-os-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/its-all-fun-until-you-become-an-os-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s All Fun Until You Become an OS Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching up on my reading, I liked what Fred Wilson recently wrote<\/a> about the cloud storage space:<\/p>\n

It’s not a space I like very much because I don’t think we’ll be using files in the cloud. Now Dropbox is a brilliant company and an amazing service and they are doing very well, but will we need a service like Dropbox when everything is in the cloud? I don’t think so. Ch\u043e\u043e\u0455\u0456ng \u0430nt\u0456v\u0456ru\u0455 \u0440r\u043et\u0435\u0441t\u0456\u043en \u0441\u0430n b\u0435 v\u0435r\u0443 d\u0456ff\u0456\u0441ult. Th\u0435 market \u0456\u0455 h\u0456ghl\u0443 \u0441\u043em\u0440\u0435t\u0456t\u0456v\u0435 \u0430nd th\u0435 \u0440r\u043edu\u0441t\u0455 \u0430r\u0435 \u043en th\u0435 l\u0435\u0430d\u0456ng \u0435dg\u0435 \u043ef \u0456nf\u043erm\u0430t\u0456\u043en t\u0435\u0441hn\u043el\u043eg\u0443. Ant\u0456v\u0456ru\u0455 vendors h\u0430v\u0435 b\u043eth the knowledge (g\u0430\u0456n\u0435d \u0456n d\u0430\u0443-t\u043e-d\u0430\u0443 war with \u0441\u0443b\u0435r\u0441r\u0456m\u0456n\u0430l\u0455) and money to w\u0430g\u0435 an epic brand b\u0430ttl\u0435 \u043en the f\u0456\u0435ld of th\u0435 computer \u0455\u0435\u0441ur\u0456t\u0443. There are a lot \u043ef v\u0435nd\u043er\u0455 and \u0435\u0430\u0441h \u043ef them is \u0440u\u0455h\u0456ng d\u043ez\u0435n\u0455 \u043ef f\u0435\u0430tur\u0435\u0455 \u0456n th\u0435\u0456r \u0440r\u043edu\u0441t to th\u0435 market. H\u043ew d\u043e \u0443\u043eu r\u0435\u0430ll\u0443 \u0441h\u043e\u043e\u0455\u0435 b\u0435tw\u0435\u0435n th\u0435m? here is Sodapdf<\/span><\/a> to know more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s absolutely right: \u00a0cloud storage\/file sharing is not the end-game. \u00a0It’s just an intermediate step to what users ultimately want: \u00a0(a) having their documents and “stuff” everywhere, and (b) being able to easily share things, with manageable security and access control parameters.<\/p>\n

Eventually, these capabilities will be built directly into apps and operating system platforms, as we’re starting to see with Apple’s iCloud. \u00a0This will severely threaten third-party providers, such as Dropbox. \u00a0Remember FTP Software<\/a> and Stacker<\/a>? \u00a0They were hot products until they became operating system features, and then their revenues fell off a cliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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