For those with existing free accounts, there was no upgrade in storage limits (for me, it's 5GB). Of course, it's their choice since it's free, but it doesn't leave me wanting to upgrade to their paid plan (like I did for dropbox and sugar sync).
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#63My first thought: I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox, it should take me about 10 minutes to switch. I could even run both at the same time for redundancy. My second thought: from an investing perspective the danger in this space is the easy commoditization. This will lead to high competition and low profits, with hopefully some differentiation on quality (especially dependability).
I also signed up, but had a very different feeling. Sync is hard to get right, and so far (other than a brief but inexcusable security sanfu) Dropbox has been rock solid. Just absolutely rock solid, which is something I can't say about many services. There are many ways to screw this up; just look at Apple.
Dropbox is also the most transformative pieces of software I've ever used. It's not an exaggeration to say that it changed the part of my life that involves a computer. Finally I can keep multiple computers in sync easily, and if a system ever goes down or I get a new one I can have all the data/documents I need on it in one step. This is ONLY possible if I trust that system completely. I'm not sure anyone will ever unseat Dropbox for me. I pay them with a smile.
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#64Why do I have to provide my phone number to sign up?
Yeah it does not appear to be a *required field but still throws an error. I say its bad design. Just right click and inspect and delete that input field parent.. =) class='all_plan_group_row' to be specific
Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life
#65My first thought: I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox, it should take me about 10 minutes to switch. I could even run both at the same time for redundancy. My second thought: from an investing perspective the danger in this space is the easy commoditization. This will lead to high competition and low profits, with hopefully some differentiation on quality (especially dependability).
> I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox First thing I did was check for local syncing abilities on the various platforms: no luck on the Linux front, although they seem to offer WebDAV access — a far cry from a syncing solution such as Dropbox or AeroFS.
> no luck on the Linux front, although they seem to offer WebDAV access
You can always use davfs, it worked out for me:
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#66Two limits of free accounts: no sync agent, and you can't be logged in on two browser sessions simultaneously.
Sync used to be part of the paid plans. They've made it free now.
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#67My first thought: I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox, it should take me about 10 minutes to switch. I could even run both at the same time for redundancy. My second thought: from an investing perspective the danger in this space is the easy commoditization. This will lead to high competition and low profits, with hopefully some differentiation on quality (especially dependability).
Depends on how much you make use of the social element of DropBox. Friends, Family, Colleagues, coworkers all share their files with me through DropBox shared folders. About six months ago I finally bit the bullet and just bought a subscription.
For whatever reason, I've never had a folder-share request for anything but Dropbox, and, it's performance has been flawless for me across all my systems.
In comparison, photostream, which only needs to sync across a limited number of platforms, all controlled by Apple, has been consistently unreliable, and i frequently have to hop into my iPhone Photo application to get it to sync pictures over to my Laptop.
Syncing is hard. Dropbox has it nailed. I have zero desire to mess around with anyone else in the near future, so, they've won as far as I'm concerned.
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#68Thats a lot of GB. Several times more than my free Dropbox + Google Drive. So where is the catch ? There has to be one .
There's only 10GB of bandwidth for the month. You'd need 5 months just to upload to your max, not including any downloading that would inevitably occur.
Also, it requires your phone number. Not as big a deal, but fuck that.
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#69With inflation I hope otherwise its an empty gesture.
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#70Just a marketing ploy. Box.com, formerly box.net, was initially a free 50GB offering, until they decided to make their usual offering a special promo after October 2012.
It's still at the high end of what these services offer, though.