MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses

Xenophon · 09-13-2011, 01:08 PM

Many posters here appear to have missed an important part of the original story/rumor:

Apple offered to buy DropBox for $800M... back some time ago long before DB raised more money at a price that values DB at $4B.

Note the tense of that previous sentence -- it's important.

The comments on this thread might be more to the point if the Title of the thread was "Apple tried... Drobox Refused". PAST TENSE. It's a recent rumor about something that happened a while ago, back when $800M was a plausible price (although not a price that the founders of DB were willing to accept).

Xenophon

09-13-2011, 01:08 PM	#83
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,487 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	Many posters here appear to have missed an important part of the original story/rumor: Apple offered to buy DropBox for $800M... back some time ago long before DB raised more money at a price that values DB at $4B. Note the tense of that previous sentence -- it's important. The comments on this thread might be more to the point if the Title of the thread was "Apple tried... Drobox Refused". PAST TENSE. It's a recent rumor about something that happened a while ago, back when $800M was a plausible price (although not a price that the founders of DB were willing to accept). Xenophon