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Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by lotsofpulp »

defen wrote: post #24
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #18

Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. I find it pretty astonishing that such a mature product: - Is slow - Demolishes my MBP's battery - Has not gotten simpler to use And worst of all, it is completely out of line with what their competition are charging. They want $12.50-15/mo for their most basic plan when their competition is charging $0-1…

> once iCloud launches file sharing I'm 100% done with them. Do you mean something other than this? https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/share-files-with-ic...

They mean folder sharing, which is coming in Catalina.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by petschge »

abakker wrote: post #36
jarfil wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More like competition, including open source solutions, has reached a point where Dropbox is becoming obsolete.

can you personally recommend any open source solutions that are reasonably plug and play?

syncthing[1] works nicely for me.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by cannonedhamster »

fortran77 wrote: post #33
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #18

Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. I find it pretty astonishing that such a mature product: - Is slow - Demolishes my MBP's battery - Has not gotten simpler to use And worst of all, it is completely out of line with what their competition are charging. They want $12.50-15/mo for their most basic plan when their competition is charging $0-1…

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software In all seriousness, have you looked at OneDrive + Office365? For $70/year you get 1 TB of storage, a client that works on all platforms, plus M…

Doesn't work on Linux which is what the quote you're referencing is talking about. Office365 comes with it's own challenges. Plus your documents are all scanned and there is no privacy protection, especially not from the US government.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by defen »

fitzroy wrote: post #40
defen wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> once iCloud launches file sharing I'm 100% done with them. Do you mean something other than this? https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/share-files-with-ic...

Perhaps parent commenter meant folder-level sharing which is slated to be introduced in iOS13.x / macOS 10.15.x.

Ah, very cool, I guess I missed that announcement.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by ram_rar »

Dropbox has a tough road ahead. With Google Drive, Microsoft Word cloud suite and Box, its definitely getting tough to survive by just doing B2C. With their recent acquisitions they'll probably pivot to DocuSign like model. But they are definitely losing their niche.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by fullshark »

jonknee wrote: post #23
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #18

Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. I find it pretty astonishing that such a mature product: - Is slow - Demolishes my MBP's battery - Has not gotten simpler to use And worst of all, it is completely out of line with what their competition are charging. They want $12.50-15/mo for their most basic plan when their competition is charging $0-1…

Steve Jobs was early, but not wrong about Dropbox being a feature and not a product. I just want a folder that syncs extremely reliably, that's it. They've gone down the corporate rabbithole and now call themselves a "smart workspace" whatever that means.

Well the corporate rabbithole was the only way they could turn it into a business, and not a feature as you say.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by notyourday »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #18

Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. I find it pretty astonishing that such a mature product: - Is slow - Demolishes my MBP's battery - Has not gotten simpler to use And worst of all, it is completely out of line with what their competition are charging. They want $12.50-15/mo for their most basic plan when their competition is charging $0-1…

> Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. I find it pretty astonishing that such a mature product:

That's what happens when the "Enterprise sales" mosquito bites a B2C company.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by cannonedhamster »

roter wrote: post #37
dannylandau wrote: post #25

Dropbox is still an insanely awesome product, and one of the few that I actually pay for and use on a daily basis -- it is a lifeline for my business!

I would have said the same thing in 2010 when I first started my business and needed file sharing/syncing in a small team. Everything just worked on Linux & Windows. Then they started tweaking everything, adding useless features, and it seems to be more of a hassle every year. But I'm still using it but if a cheaper, more lightweight service was offered, I'd probably switch.

Nextcloud? A NAS device? Google Drive? Practically all of these are cheaper and have the same or better usefulness. There's actually a ton of storage options out there.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by lotsofpulp »

jarfil wrote: post #31
mjhagen wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They screwed up a perfect piece of software.

More like competition, including open source solutions, has reached a point where Dropbox is becoming obsolete.

I don’t understand why one would expect to be able to compete with iCloud, google drive, one drive. They have so much cash to burn.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by javagram »

cannonedhamster wrote: post #48
roter wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have said the same thing in 2010 when I first started my business and needed file sharing/syncing in a small team. Everything just worked on Linux & Windows. Then they started tweaking everything, adding useless features, and it seems to be more of a hassle every year. But I'm still using it but if a cheaper, more lightweight service was offered, I'd probably switch.

Nextcloud? A NAS device? Google Drive? Practically all of these are cheaper and have the same or better usefulness. There's actually a ton of storage options out there.

Nextcloud and a NAS would both qualify as a hassle, I think. They have to be admin’d. After all NAS and FTP already existed when Dropbox launched.

Google drive is similar to Dropbox.

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