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Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by burnte »

Spooky23 wrote: post #15
SilverRed wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar experience. I pay for the 100GB Google one plan which comes with the excellent google photos service and I went to see what dropbox offers and found their cheapest plan was extremely expensive comparatively and they offer less features. I'm just not sure how they even compete at this point when they do the same thing as every other cloud storage product but cost more. And you even have to pay extra for family…

If you make a lot of changes, the Dropbox sync works. Google drive or OneDrive choke in a variety of situations. The product sucks in lots of other ways.

I hate OneDrive, and I don't even USE it. I hate it because my corporate users taht use it have a constant stream of issues with it. It fails to sync constantly, the agent fails to load properly, or needs to be logged in again for some reason, etc. It's a never ending stream of failures with the heaviest users.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by refulgentis »

remram wrote: post #20
refulgentis wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nonsense. You're saying you'd prefer shaving 125 Mbps off your Internet connection over 60 MB of your 8+ GB of RAM.

125Mbps? 60 MB?

> 125 Mbps?

10 TB / 1 month.

> 60 MB?

In the post they replied to.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by PragmaticPulp »

sylens wrote: post #7

I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insight…

Dropbox always feels like it peaked early and has steadily gotten worse as they try to add more and more features to it.

> I feel like they are missing the mark when it comes to marketing to consumers here.

I get the impression they're relying on name recognition and first mover advantage to keep the simple users flowing in, while all of the extra features and GUI fluff are built out to attract some other audience that makes decisions by counting up how many different features are listed on each product page.

These days, I'm just happy that I haven't had to force-kill the Dropbox client in many months. I wish there was some way to go back to the days where they just synced my files for me, let me share a few things, and I didn't have to fight with their GUI all the time.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by asaddhamani »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #9
sylens wrote: post #7

I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insight…

> There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions After you grow as a company and hire lots of engineers and your core product is "good enough", you have to try to pivot/stay relevant/compete/innovate I guess. Lots of manpower (I have no idea how large their engineering team is) need to be kept busy I guess?

They have 2500 employees. Why does a single product company with a product that is mostly “done” need those many people?

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Post by Salgat »

asaddhamani wrote: post #25
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions After you grow as a company and hire lots of engineers and your core product is "good enough", you have to try to pivot/stay relevant/compete/innovate I guess. Lots of manpower (I have no idea how large their engineering team is) need to be kept busy I guess?

They have 2500 employees. Why does a single product company with a product that is mostly “done” need those many people?

This horrible obsession with exponential growth. It's not enough to maintain a core team of engineers and pass on those savings on the price in order to gain more customers.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by SilverRed »

asaddhamani wrote: post #25
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions After you grow as a company and hire lots of engineers and your core product is "good enough", you have to try to pivot/stay relevant/compete/innovate I guess. Lots of manpower (I have no idea how large their engineering team is) need to be kept busy I guess?

They have 2500 employees. Why does a single product company with a product that is mostly “done” need those many people?

Because Google would have more dedicated to the software/sales/datacenters/etc for Google One/Drive/Photos.

They need to compete with what the competition is doing.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by SilverRed »

arthurcolle wrote: post #27
sorry_outta_gas wrote: post #23

what is dropbox paper?

New Age neo-hypertext document type (proprietary, of course) that supports collaboration using the Dropbox™ suite of services

So a competitor to google docs / office?
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