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Re: Dropbox Professional

#21

Post by zitterbewegung »

monkmartinez wrote: post #15
microtonal wrote: post #10

So they created a new Pro plan: https://www.dropbox.com/plans/individual?trigger=nr Recently, they renamed the old Pro plan to Plus. This sucks quite a bit for long-time users, since they are only adding new features (smart sync, full content search) to the new Pro plan.

Yeah, I bet they peg the average "storage" per customer around 300GB. People are forced to manage the space on their HDD and not simply dump everything to Dropbox. If everyone used the 1TB... I imagine Dropbox wouldn't look the same pricing wise and/or have some serious heart ache about it. Like over provisioning in the VPS space... maybe, I don't know for sure, just throwing this out there food for thought.

I got my Classic Dropbox account upped to around 300GB for life because I answered a question at a conference. I haven't exceeded it for the last seven years or so.

Re: Dropbox Professional

#22

Post by mediaman »

monkmartinez wrote: post #13
bachmeier wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they have less reason to be concerned about their competitors than they do about their pricing. $99/year for a somewhat crippled version of Dropbox is steep.

I am not sure what you mean by crippled... nor do I have vested interest in Dropbox. However, I would be remiss to not mention 1,000GB of storage on S3 would run you $23USD. Now this is before calculating management, request and data transfer pricing. I just did the math and now thinking I should pay for Dropbox, instead of S3.

Yes but most people don't use 1tb, which is a problem with inflexible pricing models like this. If you're using 100 gb, which is probably the more typical user, you're still paying $100 a year, which isn't competitive with other options in the market.

Re: Dropbox Professional

#23

Post by myth_drannon »

monkmartinez wrote: post #15
microtonal wrote: post #10

So they created a new Pro plan: https://www.dropbox.com/plans/individual?trigger=nr Recently, they renamed the old Pro plan to Plus. This sucks quite a bit for long-time users, since they are only adding new features (smart sync, full content search) to the new Pro plan.

Yeah, I bet they peg the average "storage" per customer around 300GB. People are forced to manage the space on their HDD and not simply dump everything to Dropbox. If everyone used the 1TB... I imagine Dropbox wouldn't look the same pricing wise and/or have some serious heart ache about it. Like over provisioning in the VPS space... maybe, I don't know for sure, just throwing this out there food for thought.

that's why they don't allow to combine multiple locations/folders for sync(there is a workaround with symbolic links but it's a hack).

Re: Dropbox Professional

#24

Post by kayoone »

superdaniel wrote: post #19
brchr wrote: post #14

According to the new plans page [1], "shared link controls" for things like passwords and expiration dates will now no longer be available on the Plus plans like they have been for the last 5+ years? Am I reading this correctly? If so, that is a deeply unsatisfying regression buried in this announcement. [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/plans

I noticed that too and that would definitely be a shame to have such a downgrade. I see how Dropbox is trying to diversify their prices based on features. But honestly, they should try to compete harder with providers like Apple and Google by providing different storage tiers. Apple has 2TB for the same $9.99/mo Dropbox provides 1TB. At this point Dropbox has me mostly because of inertia and their reliability.

not only Apple and Google, compared to Office365 for $99 per year which includes 1TB Onedrive + full Office for up to 5 users, i don't see how dropbox is worth it nowadays

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by ajeet_dhaliwal »

brchr wrote: post #14

According to the new plans page [1], "shared link controls" for things like passwords and expiration dates will now no longer be available on the Plus plans like they have been for the last 5+ years? Am I reading this correctly? If so, that is a deeply unsatisfying regression buried in this announcement. [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/plans

I hope people on existing paid plans aren’t having features taken away.

Re: Dropbox Professional

#26

Post by epberry »

superdaniel wrote: post #19
brchr wrote: post #14

According to the new plans page [1], "shared link controls" for things like passwords and expiration dates will now no longer be available on the Plus plans like they have been for the last 5+ years? Am I reading this correctly? If so, that is a deeply unsatisfying regression buried in this announcement. [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/plans

I noticed that too and that would definitely be a shame to have such a downgrade. I see how Dropbox is trying to diversify their prices based on features. But honestly, they should try to compete harder with providers like Apple and Google by providing different storage tiers. Apple has 2TB for the same $9.99/mo Dropbox provides 1TB. At this point Dropbox has me mostly because of inertia and their reliability.

Unless it's still coming, I still have expiring and password links on my plus plan.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by ncheek »

brchr wrote: post #14

According to the new plans page [1], "shared link controls" for things like passwords and expiration dates will now no longer be available on the Plus plans like they have been for the last 5+ years? Am I reading this correctly? If so, that is a deeply unsatisfying regression buried in this announcement. [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/plans

Existing Pro/Plus users (from before today) will keep the "shared link controls" feature.

Re: Dropbox Professional

#28

Post by d--b »

It's not that surprising that Dropbox is moving into this space. They kind of lost the enterprise battle, and are still very popular among arty people who need to share large files easily (and without caring much about security).

In a way it's a bit like Apple's move to cater to creative people after losing the enterprise to Microsoft.

They have some way to go though, cause the brand is not really there yet...

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by jpalomaki »

brightball wrote: post #7

I might sign up for this just for Smart sync. A great next step here would be to venture into the online document signing space (Ecosign, RightSignature, etc). You’ve got probably 70% of what you need for it here already with Showcase. EDIT: Tried to sign up but the linux client doesn't support Smart Sync yet. Support people tell me it's pending.

Smart sync is great news, happy to pay the extra for that.

Setting up on new computer has been painful since full sync takes couple of days (lots of small files). With smart it would be actually possible to travel with empty disk and sync needed files on destination.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by pentae »

superdaniel wrote: post #19
brchr wrote: post #14

According to the new plans page [1], "shared link controls" for things like passwords and expiration dates will now no longer be available on the Plus plans like they have been for the last 5+ years? Am I reading this correctly? If so, that is a deeply unsatisfying regression buried in this announcement. [1]: https://www.dropbox.com/plans

I noticed that too and that would definitely be a shame to have such a downgrade. I see how Dropbox is trying to diversify their prices based on features. But honestly, they should try to compete harder with providers like Apple and Google by providing different storage tiers. Apple has 2TB for the same $9.99/mo Dropbox provides 1TB. At this point Dropbox has me mostly because of inertia and their reliability.

I'd be more satisfied with a company I could actually trust my data not to be handed over directly to state departments without a warrant myself
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