They have an entry for "Why does the service shut down?" [1], but it doesn't say much other than "We will continue to work on our vision of the "reimagined doc" at Dropbox"
I guess Dropbox is soon going to announce new documents editing features.
Edit: Answering my own question, it seems they were basically an online/mobile .docx-editing platform? Based in Israel, had 8 million users and 85 million documents created.
Looks like they're grabbing up talent for a future Office suite competitor of sorts. Makes sense if they want to differentiate themselves as a cloud storage platform, but I do wonder how that would play into their current partnership with Microsoft as the sole "external provider" for the Office iOS apps.
> current partnership with Microsoft as the sole "external provider"
I don't see that as an special partnership, MS used their public API to integrate Dropbox into their apps. The benefit is more on MS side for Office, since they invited more DB users to use MS Office.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 44.1 ms ] threadI guess Dropbox is soon going to announce new documents editing features.
[1] http://support.cloudon.com/mobile/knowledgebase/articles/489...
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I don't see that as an special partnership, MS used their public API to integrate Dropbox into their apps. The benefit is more on MS side for Office, since they invited more DB users to use MS Office.
They specialised in PDF and epub formats.
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The CloudOn staff might be joining Dropbox. The CloudOn company is being bought by them.
"Dropbox buys CloudOn".