I find it in poor taste to use Steve Jobs' name as a promotional tool. I see this done more and more and I don't think it's right.<p>They could have said "the startup that Apple wanted to buy", but that wouldn't have caught everyone's attention, right?
I love Mixergy but sometimes I do not agree with some of the assumptions the questions are laced with. When Andrew Warner asks: "Where did you get the confidence ... to get into the storage space?" the <i>assumption</i> is that it required any confidence at all. It misdirects. Drew answered perfectly though: "I just wrote some code"
I think Steve Jobs will be right again, Dropbox is a feature, a great feature to be sure, but still just a feature. iCloud works fine without it and eventually as Apple typically does, once more features are added, the need for Dropbox will lessen.
I certainly don't know the whole story but the acquisition rumors seem very un-Apple-like. The hardest things about DropBox are acquiring users and paying for servers, two things Apple would not need to worry about (I know the technology is difficult, too, but am assuming Apple could figure it out).
I liked Andrew's point right at the end of the interview - Drew had no vital marketing imperative to come in and give an interview in that depth, he was just giving back to the community. Great to see.