File hosting service hits 500 million users

11:09 - 08 March 2016

Dropbox faces stiff competition from a host of other cloud storage services.

Dropbox announced today that the over 500 million people have signed up for the file hosting service since it started syncing the contents of desktop folders in 2008.

Earlier in the year, Dropbox'sAndroid app passed the 500 million installs milestone on the Google Play Store. This number doesn’t really reflect how many people actually use Dropbox, but now we know how many people use the cloud service.

Dropbox is based in the US, but has found more success expanding to other parts of the world. Users from Brazil, Germany, India, and the UK top the list of new users amongst the last 100 million to join the service.

Dropbox continues to face more competition, with Apple, Google, and Microsoft all offering the same services along with their operating systems.

Laudably, though, Dropbox has managed to continue to find room to grow, despite not shipping with an operating system.