The violence comes as the French government attempts to address complaints that app-based car services like Uber are undermining the traditional taxi industry. Now, a different kind of anger has surfaced: Paris-based blog Rude Baguette reports that, in France, protestors are attacking Uber cars, throwing eggs, slashing tires, and breaking windows. Over the past months, many people - and many news stories - have complained about the company's "surge pricing," where it raises fares during times when lots of people want a ride, such as during snowstorms and over holidays. Uber, the ride-sharing startup, is facing its own moment of crisis. If it had branched into other services at the expense of its core syncing service, you can bet that trust wouldn't be there. And Dropbox has created a strong well of trust from which it can draw. If they're like me, users have come to rely heavily on Dropbox for quickly storing and sharing files and generally getting work done. This weekend's blip won't put many people off Dropbox. The databases affected, he said, "do not contain file data." "Your files were never at risk during the outage," Dropbox engineer Akhil Gupta wrote. It's just that people couldn't reach them. But files weren't lost or destroyed, the company says. And like the best-designed products, it works so effectively that it fades into the background. Its tool for uploading photos from mobile devices is a breeze. In my several years using the service, I have never had a file lost or corrupted. Even if it's a little bug, it's a big problem' >'This is like the same sort of genre of problem as the code that you use to fly an airplane. If Dropbox loses your trust by messing up the one thing you thought it did best, you could easily switch your allegiance to another company. Many other companies large and small now offer much the same service. But that strength is also its greatest vulnerability - Dropbox is not diversified. Founded in 2007, the company concentrates on doing thing and doing it well. On the one hand, this single-mindedness has brought Dropbox its tremendous success. The risk for Dropbox is that at its core, it essentially does only one thing: It syncs your files across all your devices.
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