Dropbox has a new goal: It wants to be your go-to site for distributing and keeping photos. And, as TechCrunch writer Matthew Panzarino says in a recent story, a new app gets Dropbox even closer to that prize. Dropbox apps for the Mac now automatically find, upload and prepare links to screenshots that you generate on your computer.
A subset of users
It’s true, as Panzarino writes, this app serves a bit of a specific niche group of users. Journalists, of course, take a lot of screenshots, so they will benefit. So will big Twitter users and app developers. But the size of the group benefitting from the app isn’t what’s important. What is significant is that the app helps Dropbox get closer to becoming the top site for keeping and sharing photos.
A future of ease?
If Dropbox reaches this goal, it could undoubtedly make your life simpler. It’s a pain today to save, store and send photos. Dropbox’s hope is one day every photo you shoot will be automatically uploaded to Dropbox. That’s good for Dropbox, of course. It’s great for the service’s users, too.
Success?
Will Dropbox achieve its pursuit to be the cloud’s go-to site for storing photos? That’s arguable. There are numerous competitors now, and plenty more will surely turn up. But Dropbox has already earned raves from its current users. It’s not difficult to imagine a time when Dropbox becomes pretty much the default photo-sharing service in the cloud.