Ben Thompson:

Thus, if I had the $10 million, I’d invest in Box. Unfortunately, I don’t, which gives me the luxury of sitting back and observing which matters more: consumer headway in a market where enterprise pays, or enterprise capability – and business model – with a smaller base.

I've been a Dropbox advocate for a long time, even as iCloud has attempted to subvert it. Ben importantly points out that that is because I am an individual user.

The big money for cloud storage is in enterprise. And Box is a step ahead.

Don't we all want $10 million to invest? That would be sweet.

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Lessley Anderson writing for The Verge:

The urge to join groups is a natural human desire. Evolutionarily speaking, our babies fared better if we surrounded ourselves with helping hands. But even today when you can survive as a loner, there’s something intoxicating about being part of an experience that’s larger than oneself.

Politics, religion, sports, bands — these are the tents under which we typically congregate. Allah, Judas Priest, the Cubs, sure. But smartphones? It seems sort of hard to believe that a graham cracker-sized computer that’s supposed to be a tool, a means to an end, could somehow deliver the same level of ecstatic experience. That it could be powerful enough to feel like a movement.

If you feel like having a few laughs and enjoying modern web design, hop on over.

Some of these people are nuts. And ironically enough, they don't outline the perceived insanities of an Apple fanboy. Weird.

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