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Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by CalRobert »

CalRobert wrote: post #19
__xtrimsky wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do care about dropbox, it's the only cloud system that works well on linux systems . It used to be overpriced but now the pricing is good. Also Google Drive is terrible on Windows if like me you have a lot of files. One drive is limited to 2GB of file size. I have yet to find a great alternative to it.

Owncloud is great, and avoids the moral complexities of contributing to a board that includes at least one endorser of torture and warrantless surveillance.

And yes, I will wear my downvotes with pride. We can't always separate our tools from the organizations which produce them, and we should be careful what behaviours we wish to reward, and thereby encourage.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by adamors »

f3llowtraveler wrote: post #22

All that matters: Does Dropbox encrypt my data on the client side, before storing it on the server? Or does Dropbox have the power to pilfer through my data, along with official snoopers and hackers?

They would say that. Like SpirderOak are saying it: https://spideroak.com/zero-knowledge/ or Crashplan: http://www.code42.com/crashplan/features/security/

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by petercooper »

spindritf wrote: post #17

A comment on the site points it out already but they charge European users more now (€9.99 which is $13.17 currently). Is there an external reason? Does that include VAT? Did they get a datacentre somewhere in the EU?

It's weird because it doesn't really say anywhere, but prices should include VAT, although unless they're selling as an EU-based or VAT-registered company, it's not mandatory.

Since this seems more B2C than B2B, I'm assuming the £79/year I see includes VAT, so that's £65.83 without 20% VAT, which is $109.17 at today's rates. I would not consider this too unfairly deviant of the US pricing considering the volatility of exchange rates.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by fein »

Is there a reason the old thread was killed and this up in its place?

I thought the sales page contained better information than the blog post.

That aside, I feel this needs to be brought up in every Dropbox thread:

Get rid of Condoleezza Rice and I'll happily use your product.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by jliptzin »

PankajGhosh wrote: post #10

I do not have a need of 1TB of space, just 100GB would do. It would be great if they provided a tier of 100GB plan (just like Google Drive)

Indeed, Dropbox can respond to google drive in two ways: (1) drop the price of the existing plan to match google drive or (2) increase the storage to compete on the $/GB/mo rate. Option 2 is much better for them because they can keep all their existing $9.99/mo customers on the same recurring plan even though the vast majority don't need the extra storage anyway.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by petercooper »

jrnkntl wrote: post #20
spindritf wrote: post #17

A comment on the site points it out already but they charge European users more now (€9.99 which is $13.17 currently). Is there an external reason? Does that include VAT? Did they get a datacentre somewhere in the EU?

Yeah, what's up with that? Apple-esque practices for digital goods. I just used a VPN to purchase the $ plan instead.

If you bought it personally (i.e. a B2C sale) you should be fine, but as a warning for any (update: UK based, at least) VAT-registered traders or businesses, you will need to reverse charge the VAT which mostly defeats the point.

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by chmars »

It is disappointing that Dropbox still does not offer any options for secure storage. Personally, you might be fine with unencrypted stories but at least for companies in Europe, having (all) your data with an American cloud provider without local encryption on your side is simply not a legal option …

Dropbox is a great service, however, it would be even greater if I could use Dropbox for all my data and not only selected data where I do not consider local encryption necessary.

(I know about add-on software like Boxcryptor but all options I have tested so far were not user-friendly enough … Dropbox competitors with encryption like Spideroak and Wuala work good enough but are in no way as user-friendly and convenient as Dropbox.)

Re: Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro

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Post by jrnkntl »

petercooper wrote: post #28
jrnkntl wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, what's up with that? Apple-esque practices for digital goods. I just used a VPN to purchase the $ plan instead.

If you bought it personally (i.e. a B2C sale) you should be fine, but as a warning for any (update: UK based, at least) VAT-registered traders or businesses, you will need to reverse charge the VAT which mostly defeats the point.

You don't need to reverse charge the VAT as a EU business because there's no VAT stated on the invoice at all (b/c it's a US company).

[edited] this is bullocks, IANAA(ccountant) applies here deservedly.

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