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Re: Dropbox Professional

#41

Post by i1856511 »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #40

Dropbox has been dropping out of favor for me. Their app now has non-notifications on my system menu (Check out this new feature!), and it drains my laptop's battery when there's lots of syncing going on. I also I didn't like how they handled the Accessibility controls fiasco. I bought my parents a subscription to iCloud and whats really great about the product is that they don't even know they have it, they just kno…

How did you provide payment information for iCloud for an account that wasn't your own? Or is your CC the one on file for your parents' account? I want to do the same thing for my own parents, but they have their own CC on file and AFAIK there's no way to supply a different one for a one-off purchase.

Re: Dropbox Professional

#42

Post by [deleted] »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #40

Dropbox has been dropping out of favor for me. Their app now has non-notifications on my system menu (Check out this new feature!), and it drains my laptop's battery when there's lots of syncing going on. I also I didn't like how they handled the Accessibility controls fiasco. I bought my parents a subscription to iCloud and whats really great about the product is that they don't even know they have it, they just kno…

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Re: Dropbox Professional

#44

Post by mynameisvlad »

SmellTheGlove wrote: post #35
pasukin wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's difficult to compare Dropbox to Apple, Google and Microsoft in terms of what they offer and for how much. All three of those giants are able to subsidize their storage offerings. Apple has their hardware business, Google has their ad business, and Microsoft has their software business. The storage offerings from all three are used to entice you into using their other services. It doesn't matter if they're profit…

If you're a consumer, it's easy to compare, though. Consumers don't care about the vendor's costs, just the price and some perception of stability (of which, if I had to bet, Dropbox and Apple are the most likely to not surprise-discontinue on us in the future). That said I'm pretty happy with Dropbox and not going to switch. I'd love Smart Sync, though, but not at 2x the price I'm paying for Plus right now. $99 a ye…

OneDrive has been around for 10 years and we're one of the best known companies for backwards compatibility and keeping things far past their prime (Hotmail/Outlook.com, for instance, which has been out for 21 years, albeit only 20 under the company.)

What makes you think it's going to be surprise-discontinued?

Re: Dropbox Professional

#45

Post by toomuchtodo »

i1856511 wrote: post #41
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #40

Dropbox has been dropping out of favor for me. Their app now has non-notifications on my system menu (Check out this new feature!), and it drains my laptop's battery when there's lots of syncing going on. I also I didn't like how they handled the Accessibility controls fiasco. I bought my parents a subscription to iCloud and whats really great about the product is that they don't even know they have it, they just kno…

How did you provide payment information for iCloud for an account that wasn't your own? Or is your CC the one on file for your parents' account? I want to do the same thing for my own parents, but they have their own CC on file and AFAIK there's no way to supply a different one for a one-off purchase.

Family controls let you pay for someone else's storage (if they're on your family account). Buying then an iTunes gift card works as well.

I prepay my $36/year in iCloud storage for all of our synced family photos by purchasing a gift card each year and then applying it to my iTunes account (instead of dinging my CC $3/month, which is just annoying).

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by tedmiston »

Tl;dr - It looks like a rebranding to charge more for single creative pro users that previously would have gotten nearly the same benefits of the personal plan for, I think, half the price. They are injecting a tier in between the normal plan and the teams / business plan.

Selective sync isn't actually new despite the marketing spin that now it's available on a per file level. Nor are expiring and protected links. The webpage builder tool is new.

Edit: Surprised to see someone downvoted this. Look at Dropbox's feature page… this stuff already exists.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by jaytaylor »

Why is Dropbox straying so far from its core mission and competency?

Edit

It seems like they're bloating up the product with features that have little relation to the core mission of providing secure storage, access, and sharing for files.

As a user and investor, I'd rather see:

- Better, more competitive pricing.

Or if that's not an option, at the very least..

- Stick to relevant technological innovation. For example, wouldn't it be cool if intelligent caching and network awareness would let you turn a 1TB drive into a 5TB drive? That would be a much more compelling story.

Given the stiff competition in the space, all this holds doubly true imho.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by tspike »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #40

Dropbox has been dropping out of favor for me. Their app now has non-notifications on my system menu (Check out this new feature!), and it drains my laptop's battery when there's lots of syncing going on. I also I didn't like how they handled the Accessibility controls fiasco. I bought my parents a subscription to iCloud and whats really great about the product is that they don't even know they have it, they just kno…

I'm planning on making the same switch. My main use case for Dropbox was having access to my photos from anywhere, but they have systematically hobbled their photo capabilities beginning with the sunsetting of Carousel to the recent redesign of the web Photos page making it impossible to find old photos.

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by swypych »

d--b wrote: post #28

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...

Curious, who did they lose it to?

Re: Dropbox Professional

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Post by dorfsmay »

kayoone wrote: post #20

I have a hard time with Dropbox' pricing. I was a pro user once, but discontinued it because i didn't actually need that much storage, i would have been fine with 100GB for 40 EUR or something. I pay 99 per year for Office365 which gives me the full office suite for 5 people who can each install everything on 5 devices + 1TB OneDrive. Of course OneDrive is no Dropbox, but it does it's job and holds the bulk of my dat…

Same here, if you want a descent size sync storage for your spouse and kids, it adds up quickly.

Given that gdrive and most equivalent offers don't support Linux client, I ended up going with pCloud, and have been really happy so far.

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