As an otherwise-happy Dropbox customer, it does concern me somewhat that there has been very little innovation in the core product for several years. They seem focused on building a halo of lock-in services instead.
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Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
#12People stick with Dropbox for a simple reason: they do the syncing thing faster and more painlessly than anyone else out there. If Apple ever gets their act together and makes iCloud actually fast and reliable a syncing service, Dropbox might be in trouble.
What's the actual issue with iCloud? It takes three seconds to turn it on, and select what I want to sync. Done. Backing up, syncing calendars, contacts, and notes to all my devices with zero problem.
> What's the actual issue with iCloud?
I'll admit I haven't tried yet, but I'm going to hazard a guess that if I try to setup icloud on my Linux machines at home or my Android devices, I'm not going to get very far.
With Dropbox I get all the way, everywhere, with no hassles. Thus Dropbox has my business.
Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
#13Only reason I still use Dropbox is because 1password integrates so nicely with it.
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#14My dropbox scenario is I have a 2TB HD and 2TB dropbox storage with the 1year packrat service. I record and edit music on the HD and dropbox is always syncing my changes. The next day, when I'm at work, I can pull up the website and listen to the stuff I worked on the previous night. If I go into a studio I connect to dropbox and sync whatever folder(s) that contains the song(s) I'm working on. When I get home the fi…
Have you tried asking to pay for more space? I would be willing to pay for a package somewhere between the 1TB pro account and the very expensive Business account.
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#15As an otherwise-happy Dropbox customer, it does concern me somewhat that there has been very little innovation in the core product for several years. They seem focused on building a halo of lock-in services instead.
I don't know, their core product is so solid. It's one of those things I can install and never think about again, it just works. Maybe there's no need to innovate there?
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#16I'd be shocked if Dropbox is still in business in 5 years. It's kind of sad because it was the first mover and I loved the service when it was the only one, but now there are a million options that are probably just as good. Not to mention they've never made a dime on me personally or anyone I know (and as I understand it that's true for 95% of their user-base). Our company actually banned Dropbox.com because we decided we'd rather do everything on Google drive for free instead of pay Dropbox for corporate use. The whole industry also has bearish macro outlook as storage continues to get cheaper and yet people's need for it doesn't grow proportionately.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the actual issue with iCloud? It takes three seconds to turn it on, and select what I want to sync. Done. Backing up, syncing calendars, contacts, and notes to all my devices with zero problem.
> What's the actual issue with iCloud? I'll admit I haven't tried yet, but I'm going to hazard a guess that if I try to setup icloud on my Linux machines at home or my Android devices, I'm not going to get very far. With Dropbox I get all the way, everywhere, with no hassles. Thus Dropbox has my business.
That's like saying well I'm not going to get very far running a Playstation 4 game on my Super Nintendo. You can't count software that isn't even supported on a system. Yes, DropBox has a client for many systems, but saying DropBox is better because iCloud doesn't even exist on Linux make no sense.
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It's a safe bet that 80-90% of dropbox users are on a PC.
Based on what?
Given Apples 7.6% share of the 'PC' market as reported in 3Q15 (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3146617) I wouldn't be suprised that the vast majority of dropbox users are on Windows, simply because the vast majority of computer users are.
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#19I'd be shocked if Dropbox is still in business in 5 years. It's kind of sad because it was the first mover and I loved the service when it was the only one, but now there are a million options that are probably just as good. Not to mention they've never made a dime on me personally or anyone I know (and as I understand it that's true for 95% of their user-base). Our company actually banned Dropbox.com because we deci…
Dropbox will be in business by acquisition. How about Microsoft acquiring dropbox? Their onedrive is not as good as dropbox and will surely help in their cause.
Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
#20People stick with Dropbox for a simple reason: they do the syncing thing faster and more painlessly than anyone else out there. If Apple ever gets their act together and makes iCloud actually fast and reliable a syncing service, Dropbox might be in trouble.
What's the actual issue with iCloud? It takes three seconds to turn it on, and select what I want to sync. Done. Backing up, syncing calendars, contacts, and notes to all my devices with zero problem.
iCloud data store syncing is OK, but file syncing is unreliably slow. Unlike Dropbox, it doesn't have the "two computers synced before I even turned around from one to the other" experience.