How does Dropbox stand up to global companies with storage services

Save data online and easily share between PC and smartphoneDropboxIs a popular online storage service that is in line with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Tencent etc. The current situation of Dropbox that confronts "giants" in such technology industry and the difference with competing companies are summarized in the table.

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Dropbox's market capitalization is estimated to be 10 billion dollars (about 1 trillion 200 billion yen), but Apple's market capitalization is 748 billion dollars (about 89 trillion yen), Google is 369 billion dollars (approx. About 44 trillion 200 billion yen), Microsoft gained 357 billion dollars (42 trillion 78 billion yen), Amazon gained 173 billion dollars (20 trillion trillion 730 billion yen), and Tencent became $ 160 billion (19 trillion 16 billion yen) It is in a state that it does not have to reach competitors by market capitalization total.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston believes that "being able to survive" while being surrounded by such the world's highest level super-mega company. Since creating Dropbox as a storage service in 2007, Dropbox continues to show its presence in the industry where competitors such as Google and Apple continue to enter, and Dropbox accounts for 27% of the file synchronization and document share consumption market It is said that. This is more than Microsoft and Apple.

ByJD Lasica

It is provided for enterprisesDropbox for businessOf the hotel chainHyattYaUNDER ARMOR (Under Armor),SpotifyMore than 100,000 organizations, including companies like, have introduced it, and we pay Dropbox a fee of $ 15 per user (about 1800 yen) per month. Even if it conservatively estimates Dropbox's annual revenue, it got about 450 million dollars (about 53.9 billion yen), "IPOIt is said that 2015 will be a turning point for Dropbox as it is being rumored that "I am supposed to refrain from".

In such a dropbox in November 2014,Ability to edit Office document files on Dropbox with mobile application, Released a function that can save files with 2 taps from the application. In this way, Dropbox continues to update in order to win in huge competition.

The following table summarizes the features and functions of Dropbox and its competitors.


The number of users of Dropbox which started cloud storage service in the first term of 2008 is over 300 million, and it is not closed to competing companies. Free storage capacity is 2 GB for Dropbox, Amazon Web Services (AWS) 200 GB (30 days only), iCloud 5 GB, Google Drive and OneDrive 15 GB, Tencent up to 10 TB (10000 GB) Dropbox is the least minimum line. When comparing the necessary monthly fee per 1 TB, DropboxDropbox ProIs $ 9.99 (Japanese version service is 1200 yen),Dropbox for business(Japanese service: 1,800 yen), AWS is $ 29 (about 3400 yen), iCloud is 19.99 dollars (Japanese version service 2400 yen), Google Drive becomes 9.99 dollars (Japanese version service 1200 yen) against 15 dollars (Japanese version service 1,800 yen) It is.


In the relationship between Dropbox and each company, in addition to Dropbox being a customer of AWS, Apple's Steve Jobs tried to buy Dropbox in 2009. Therefore, when iCloud was released in 2011, Dropbox's development team got into a panic. Google Drive users can sync folders to Dropbox in real time, and Microsoft and Dropbox are tied up so Office 365 users can view and edit files on Dropbox.


Even with the same storage service, each is trying to differentiate its functions, Amazon is using the mail / calendar management service "WorkMail"ICloud is a photo synchronization service"My photo stream"Is provided. Google Drive has a custom map service "My map"It is said that OneDrive is starting music streaming service. Dropbox is a document file editing auxiliary service "badgeI'm against you.