Another view point here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7083439.
Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer
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#12I've developed using both. Dropbox is much more well-known overall where Box is much more well-known in the enterprise area. From the iOS developer side of things I much prefer Dropbox and here's why:
- Box's SDK authentication uses a modal view controller with a web view to authenticate. Its appearance is somewhat unpolished and glitchy. Dropbox redirects to the Dropbox app if installed and if not uses a modal view controller. Box used to use this method but no longer does for some reason. It's much more cumbersome to log in without it.
- Dropbox is path-based and all actions are based on a path. Box requires that you recursively iterate from the root to get each level's unique ID if all you have is a path.
- Box's SDK has had a much slower development cycle than Dropbox. There are many operations that are not yet coded.
- Box refreshes the login token frequently, which has a tendency to slow things down.
All of these make something as common as a file chooser much, much easier to implement on Dropbox.
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#13Adrive.com has been offering 50 gigs for at least 6 years. Because I still got so old backups there.
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#14Interesting... It took a few clicks to find out what Box is: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/201207836-What-is-... I wonder, what's the incentive to use Box instead of Dropbox? The space is nice, but trust isn't so easily earned. I'm wondering why to trust Box with personal files.
Box is HIPA compliant -- Dropbox is not.
Generally Box is well known for its security, whereas Dropbox accomplishes a solution to its problem but I wouldn't trust confidential files on it.
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#15Happy to see that they are actually offering 50gb. Most services say 50gb but it's actually upto 50gb. So you need to refer atleast 5 friends etc. to get the space.
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#16Looking at the comments, you'd think the post title was "Box vs Dropbox"...
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#17Interesting... It took a few clicks to find out what Box is: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/201207836-What-is-... I wonder, what's the incentive to use Box instead of Dropbox? The space is nice, but trust isn't so easily earned. I'm wondering why to trust Box with personal files.
I think they only offer such a large amount free because they don't allow you to store large files and that is what they want you to pay for. Edit: you can see here maximum file size is 250mb without paying https://www.box.com/pricing/
"they don't allow you to store large files and that is what they want you to pay for...you can see here maximum file size is 250mb without paying"
I found that comment a bit jarring. Is 250MB file size max and 50GB total storage for free considered to be stingy now?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they only offer such a large amount free because they don't allow you to store large files and that is what they want you to pay for. Edit: you can see here maximum file size is 250mb without paying https://www.box.com/pricing/
"they don't allow you to store large files and that is what they want you to pay for...you can see here maximum file size is 250mb without paying" I found that comment a bit jarring. Is 250MB file size max and 50GB total storage for free considered to be stingy now?
The 50GB is irrelevant because we're talking about file size. And yes, 250MB is 'not large', in that it blocks super bulky video files.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
"they don't allow you to store large files and that is what they want you to pay for...you can see here maximum file size is 250mb without paying" I found that comment a bit jarring. Is 250MB file size max and 50GB total storage for free considered to be stingy now?
The 50GB is irrelevant because we're talking about file size. And yes, 250MB is 'not large', in that it blocks super bulky video files.
I would venture to say that most people use dropbox and similar services for image sync. Sure people use it for all sorts of things, but I would bet that the majority is images.
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#2050GB for free is near useless when you have a 100 MB or 250 MB monthly transfer limit.
Dropbox's desktop client is also better.
I'll stick with Dropbox.