Chase, Cut to the: "The Winners and Losers at Apple’s WWDC Keynote" (AAPL)
From re/code:
...The Losers
- Dropbox: Apple SVP Craig Federighi seemed a bit
surprised by the cheers for iCloud Drive. But if the new cloud storage
program works as advertised, it’ll be competition for cloud companies
like Dropbox, which is already beset with big-company competitors undercutting its prices.
- Hightail: Also on tap in file sharing: A new
service called Mail Drop that makes it easier to send large files, like
photos, without hitting up against the recipient’s mail server.
Transferring heavy files is the specialty of services like Hightail,
formerly known as YouSendIt.
- Snapchat and WhatsApp: Apple is getting serious
about its messaging app, integrating it more tightly with the Messages
app on the Mac and adding new features like quick voice and video chat,
as well as pictures that delete themselves after a certain amount of
time. If that sounds an awful lot like messaging juggernauts WhatsApp
and Snapchat, well … WhatsApp agrees....
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