So it comes as no surprise that mobile has been big business already for Dropbox. People are on the move, and they often interchange their devices, and those light devices usually don’t have enough storage for the mass of data that we have accumulated in our connected lives. The evolution of mobile services - and exploding usage of smartphones and tablets - presents one of the biggest opportunities for cloud storage companies like Dropbox. Do you want to see photos? Or plug in your business? There’s a ton of upside that we can share on that front.” “All these opportunities are being left on the ground today. “If we’re not already working together, we’d love to work with you,” he said to an audience of smartphone markers and operators - the same people that Houston has been taking meetings with in Barcelona this week. What does he mean by this? Houston said he believes that Dropbox is only “just scratching the surface” of what it can do in partnership with others. “We’re in the Apple 2 phase of Dropbox,” he said, referring to the time when Apple hadn’t yet made the Macintosh. Drew Houston, the CEO of Dropbox, said that staying independent was a key part of Dropbox’s strategy and with mobile being the most important platform for picking up new users, Dropbox was looking for more handset makers and carriers for partnerships along the lines of the one it has with Samsung, as he described his cloud storage company as being in its “Apple 2 phase.”

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