Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of October 18, "Forbes" magazine reported that the United States online storage services Dropbox co-founder Arash Firdos (Arash ferdowsi) and Dru Houston (Drew Houston) at the end of 2009 rejected the Apple " Nine-digit takeover offer. It was only two years before Dropbox launched the service. Apple's then CEO Steve Jobs contributed to Apple's first contact with Dropbox, according to the Forbes report. Mr. Jobs told Dropbox co-founder that they should sell the company because Apple would crush Dropbox through a competitive product. Apple recently launched a cloud storage service icloud. In December 2009, Mr. Jobs invited Houston and his partner, Firdos, to head to Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Forbes reported. And when Houston took out his notebook to make a presentation, jobs made it clear: "I know what you're going to do." "As an online storage service, Dropbox currently has more than 50 million users and a new user per second." Jobs had found that Dropbox was a strategic asset for Apple. But Houston rejected Jobs ' offer and decided to build a big company instead of selling it. Mr Jobs said Apple would also be involved in the market in the future. (Lili) Share:
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