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Filed May 4, 2026
The short version
David Levy predicted on July 5, 2011: “Forrester wrote a report in June 2011 forecasting that today's 50 million or so "personal cloud" users will grow to almost 200 million by 2016 driving $12 billion in annual revenue by then… So whatever number you come up with for the personal cloud stuff — double it.” Verdict: Called it. Called Jul…
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David Levy
On July 5, 2011
“Forrester wrote a report in June 2011 forecasting that today's 50 million or so "personal cloud" users will grow to almost 200 million by 2016 driving $12 billion in annual revenue by then… So whatever number you come up with for the personal cloud stuff — double it.”
Follow-up
Called Jul 5, 2011. By 2016 Dropbox alone had 500M+ registered users and Google Drive 800M+; iCloud, OneDrive, and Google Photos each crossed the hundreds of millions. Personal-cloud user counts blew well past Forrester's 200M estimate, validating Levy's "double it" call.
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