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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 exampl…
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 exampl…
Aside from iCloud, are there any other comparable alternatives to Dropbox?
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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.
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?
1. A directory on my drive that's automatically synced to a public folder on a web server
2. The convenience of Dropbox's Finder/Explorer integration (right-click to copy link)
First one is pretty trivial with a cron job (or equivalent) and some rsync-fu. Second one, not sure. That's basically the convenience factor I'd pay a few bucks a month for. That and never having to check if the cron job's running. I want brain-dead simple. Anybody know of something that does this?
Their "link to your file(s) on Dropbox.com, embedded in a fancy web interface" feature(s) seems pretty useful honestly. Especially the history of who viewed the file -- that's a real differentiating feature. Different use case though.
Edit: I'm not sure why this is being downvoted.
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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?
That said, it probably won't happen overnight and it's not that difficult to migrate from OneDrive to Google Drive or such. Lock-in is low.
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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.
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…
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