Dropbox acquisition Chat Application cloud storage can 1+1>2

Dropbox in the acquisition of the road has not stopped, just a few months, respectively, to the mail, photo applications, team collaboration tools, such as the initiative, the Mobile Chat tool revenue bag. Dropbox acquisition, not blindly expand the breadth and swept all kinds of functions, but there is inherent logic worthy of scrutiny, cloud storage area, the possibility of 1+1>2 is being staged.

The Dropbox acquisition of the chat app is called a soft spot before the IPO. This "Droptalk" News application start-up company, the current product is actually in the embryonic stage. User chat through a Chrome browser plug-in, the main purpose is to share private network disk file links and other information, the future will be developed for iOS and Android operating system chat clients. In addition to network sharing, Droptalk's tools also incorporate cloud storage, which allows users to see newly added files in shared folders while chatting. Mobile chat Add cloud storage makes droptalk have a certain attraction, at the same time for Dropbox, will more than 300 million users of mutual sharing and communication through the meridians, its cloud storage services also overcome the short board, to achieve new breakthroughs.

Not so long ago, functional Dropbox added new features: Dropbox acquired a start-up Zulip that provides collaborative work-sharing solutions. Zulip is a start-up company that provides internal communication solutions for enterprise users, and is more focused on the management of dialogue content. Various chat content will be based on the content of the dialogue to make classification, facilitate the team communication, reduce the communication, can greatly improve the efficiency.

This shows that Dropbox early planned to chat services and storage business closely combined. Dropbox the ultimate goal is to make the user experience the best, not only as a simple storage products, but also a strong management synergy.

For example, the previously acquired Photo Manager feature named Carousel, and the well-known iOS photo application loom, is to embed more innovative and intelligent photo management services, while the acquisition of mailbox, the most important is the transfer function of the mailbox to enhance the liquidity of cloud storage resources, thereby enhancing product stickiness, The user experience also increases.

Dropbox recently acquired applications, functions are not simply listed plus and, but mutual promotion and integration, 1+1>2. It is also true that cloud storage, as a service, will ultimately be able to meet the needs of users and provide a better experience.