Dropbox is incredibly easy and convenient to use. It's very simple, and that's what makes it great. It's simple enough for almost anyone to use. I've pointed tech-unsavvy friends and family at Dropbox with great success. It's just a folder on your computer that magically syncs to all your other computers too.

Now, there's nothing in that which justifies having a developer conference. I definitely do not understand that. But the Dropbox service itself deserves the praise it gets.

And this is what Hacker News is, now? And the first comment, to boot?

I am with you on this one.

I only got dropbox installed on my PC because we needed to exchange some files with an external contractor that only used Dropbox.

As soon as the project was finished I removed it from my PC.

What about the Box and Twilio conferences?

it's become the hot thing for enterprise companies to host conferences. a good excuse to expense a weekend in california.