Still one of the only providers of its kind to provide a Linux client. I wish them success in their expansion.
What competitor of dropbox has no linux client?
Google Drive
Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
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Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
#22Good for them, I gladly pay the yearly fee for their service. Haven't had as much reliability with any other cloud storage service.
i think they are shooting themselfs in the foot, a month ago after my samsung promo expired i lost my 30gb of space. the only plan they have is 1TB for 8.25eur. my whole macbook drive is 512gb, and i dont like to waste something, so paying 1tb and using only 50 feels like im paying for all those using 1tb. so i switched to hosting owncloud on my downloadbox at home, the benefit is that i can access everything downloa…
I don't understand; I have far more stored in Dropbox than on my computer's hard drives or even the sum of hard drive space among my household computers. The Selective Sync features allows me to do this pretty easily. Every once in a while, I plug in an external drive to ensure I have a physical backup of Dropbox -- that is the irony, the Cloud is my main storage, my external drive is the backup of that; not vice-versa.
Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
#23It's exciting to think ahead to what that part of Mission Bay and Potrero might feel like someday when the train tracks are put in an underground tunnel (for Caltrain and high-speed rail to the Transbay Center) and I-280 is turned into a surface-level boulevard (like Octavia).
> I-280 is turned into a surface-level boulevard (like Octavia).
You meant a parking lot, didn't you ? :D
Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
#24This is tangential, and I'm not a designer so this is just one dev's opinion, but I found Dropbox's latest rebrand (dropbox.design) to be a bizarre departure for them. It was so off the wall I just assumed it was some sort of parody site until I realized it was official. I'm in no place to determine if it's "good" or "bad", but it's certainly an...interesting direction, if nothing else.
Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
#25736,000 square feet is pretty sizeable when you consider that SF has a building cap of 875,000 gross square feet of office space per year: http://sf-planning.org/office-development-annual-limitation-...
Which says more about why the real estate market in San Francisco is such a disaster.
I wish we could get that much residential square footage per year.
Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
#26Here's the gallery of renderings... Not exactly an architectural masterpiece.
Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
#27736,000 square feet is pretty sizeable when you consider that SF has a building cap of 875,000 gross square feet of office space per year: http://sf-planning.org/office-development-annual-limitation-...
Which says more about why the real estate market in San Francisco is such a disaster.
Because people keep using valuable space for offices instead of affordable housing?
This is exactly why SF sucks to live in. You have to live there to be close to work, but you're in competition with your damn office. Talk about screwing over your employees.
Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
#28Good for them, I gladly pay the yearly fee for their service. Haven't had as much reliability with any other cloud storage service.
I wish I could pay them more for more that 1tb storage. I have a ton of raw files and years of images I'd be happy to back up there instead of using Backblaze or S3 etc.
Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
#29It's exciting to think ahead to what that part of Mission Bay and Potrero might feel like someday when the train tracks are put in an underground tunnel (for Caltrain and high-speed rail to the Transbay Center) and I-280 is turned into a surface-level boulevard (like Octavia).
> I-280 is turned into a surface-level boulevard (like Octavia). You meant a parking lot, didn't you ? :D
Octavia is quite nice and traffic flows through there pretty well.
Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history
#30Naive question, but why would large companies favor leasing instead of just outright purchasing the property? It seems that when the terms of the lease are up, the leasing company has almost unlimited leverage in the next negotiation (unless the tenant company doesn't mind relocating all of its employees).