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October 1, 2013 12:46 am GMT
If you’ve been watching Dropbox at all over the last couple of years, you’ll be completely unsurprised at a new feature announced today. The apps on Mac have gained the ability to automatically detect, upload and ready a shared link to the screenshots you shoot on your computer. That’s pretty much the main reason apps like Cloud.app even exist, and really throws a wrench into that app’s core feature set. But in reality, this move will be useful to a mere subset of Dropbox users. Automatic screenshot uploading is great for ‘Internet people’. Journalists, heavy Twitter users, app developers, designers and collaborative teams. This is not a tiny subset and I’m certainly very grateful that this feature gives me an alternative to Cloud.app. And I’m sure that sharing snaps of a screen might actually become a more common behaviorjust becauseDropbox has added support for it. If you wanted to be really cynical, you could even say that this was a bit of fan service for journos, who take alot of screenshots and will probably write about this feature (hi!). But the second slice of today’s announcement is the much bigger one, in my opinion. It’s an importer that allows you to upload your entire iPhoto library to Dropbox, organized by event, in one go. Dropbox has previously announced products that automatically upload images shot on the iPhone, on Android devices and uploaded from cameras on your desktop Macs or Windows machines. This is different because it reaches into your photo past and copies over everything you’ve shot even before Dropbox. This is where you start to think about the roadmap of Dropbox’ commercial products. If the endgame of this current push is to be the default place where people store photos and I believe that it is what does that enable? If you can count on every photo you’ve ever shot and every one you will shoot being uploaded automatically from your smartphone, your digital camera and more, then the answer is: a lot. First of all you have incredibly powerful system lock-in. Yes, they’re your files and they can do whatever you want to the, including downloading them and placing them in some other cloud repository. But the lock-in is more than just ‘data’. It’s ‘memories’ that Dropbox is ‘keeping safe’. Even if you moved to another platform, why would you feel the urge to move
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Dropbox Continues Its One-Click Campaign To Be Your Default Photo Library
If you’ve been watching Dropbox at all over the last couple of years, you’ll be completely unsurprised at a new feature announced today. The apps on Mac have gained the ability to automatically detect, upload and ready a shared link to the screenshots you shoot on your computer. That’s pretty much the main reason apps like Cloud.app even exist, and really throws a wrench into that app’s core feature set. But in reality, this move will be useful to a mere subset of Dropbox users. Automatic screenshot uploading is great for ‘Internet people’. Journalists, heavy Twitter users, app developers, designers and collaborative teams. This is not a tiny subset and I’m certainly very grateful that this feature gives me an alternative to Cloud.app. And I’m sure that sharing snaps of a screen might actually become a more common behaviorjust becauseDropbox has added support for it. If you wanted to be really cynical, you could even say that this was a bit of fan service for journos, who take alot of screenshots and will probably write about this feature (hi!). But the second slice of today’s announcement is the much bigger one, in my opinion. It’s an importer that allows you to upload your entire iPhoto library to Dropbox, organized by event, in one go. Dropbox has previously announced products that automatically upload images shot on the iPhone, on Android devices and uploaded from cameras on your desktop Macs or Windows machines. This is different because it reaches into your photo past and copies over everything you’ve shot even before Dropbox. This is where you start to think about the roadmap of Dropbox’ commercial products. If the endgame of this current push is to be the default place where people store photos and I believe that it is what does that enable? If you can count on every photo you’ve ever shot and every one you will shoot being uploaded automatically from your smartphone, your digital camera and more, then the answer is: a lot. First of all you have incredibly powerful system lock-in. Yes, they’re your files and they can do whatever you want to the, including downloading them and placing them in some other cloud repository. But the lock-in is more than just ‘data’. It’s ‘memories’ that Dropbox is ‘keeping safe’. Even if you moved to another platform, why would you feel the urge to moveOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JmcInDN3uF0/
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