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Agreed. My first reaction was "way too high". The problem imo is that they don't have a huge edge over the competition. Hell even Ubuntu has a semi comparable product. Not quite as user-friendly, but do a few easily duplicated UI difference really justify billions?

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Justifying billions is of course a stretch, but having a really, really smooth UI definitely does make a difference. Its easy to underestimate these things in favor of technological advantages, which dropbox doesn't really have compared to every other personal file hosting site. But normal people really don't know/care about that, for them all that matters is an easy UI that just works. And dropbox does just that, IMO better than any others

> do a few easily duplicated UI difference really justify billions?

A large (paying) customer base would. But, just like johnrob, I'm not sure dropbox has that many users.

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