The Promise and Perils of Replacing Your Hard Drive With Dropbox

Posted: July 16, 2013

Big changes are coming to Dropbox. It's CEO has high hopes for those changes and touts that they will make hard drives disappear. Not so fast, though. The changes are great and offer more features and options for cloud storage users, but there may be some drawbacks that come along with them.

Big changes are coming to Dropbox. It's CEO has high hopes for those changes and touts that they will make hard drives disappear. Not so fast, though. The changes are great and offer more features and options for cloud storage users, but there may be some drawbacks that come along with them.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston talked a big game this week when he announced new ways for apps to save and load user data.

More than just a set of developer tools, Houston billed the new Dropbox Platform as a way to “replace the hard drive.” Dropbox Platform is supposed to provide easier ways to store your files in the cloud, with simple buttons that developers can add to their apps. It can also let apps save their own data across platforms, so your work in an Android app can carry over to iOS, and vice versa.

“Today,” Houston said, “the hard drive goes away.”

Houston’s grand proclamations certainly made for some great headlines. But as Dropbox does its best to eliminate the storage woes of the post-PC era, it may also create new headaches when it comes to storing more of our lives in the cloud.

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