If you need to, here is how you cancel your dropbox account... they don't make it easy to find. www.dropbox.com/downgrade
Dropbox Professional
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Re: Dropbox Professional
#82Why 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…
the "intelligent caching and network awareness" is basically the Smart Sync feature. Dropbox makes files appear as if they're on your hard drive when they're not and fetches them in the background when you actually need them all while trying to keep the files you really need locally cached for you.
Edit: there's some cool tech around this you can read about here: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/going-deeper-with-pro...
Re: Dropbox Professional
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Well they have me because Google Sync doesn't seem to work half of the time and/or takes forever to sync on all of my devices, and OneDrive and iCloud don't have clients on Linux (really?)
What sync do you use on Linux then? I am moving over from the Goog to mega. Full Linux support, 50GB, TNO.
Re: Dropbox Professional
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Well they have me because Google Sync doesn't seem to work half of the time and/or takes forever to sync on all of my devices, and OneDrive and iCloud don't have clients on Linux (really?)
It’s so bad. My work just switched to Google from Dropbox and it performs much worse. Also everything about the client and the product just screams that Google doesn’t give a crap about it.
Re: Dropbox Professional
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Well they have me because Google Sync doesn't seem to work half of the time and/or takes forever to sync on all of my devices, and OneDrive and iCloud don't have clients on Linux (really?)
I'm sure not having clients on < 5% of the desktop market will cause Microsoft to become non-viable any day now.
Re: Dropbox Professional
#86I wonder if axing public folders was partially done because of the, at the time, upcoming Dropbox Professional? If you could share an interactive HTML mockup as part of the free service, there is little incentive to pay extra for a professional service.
I don't think the decision to remove the public folder had anything to do with making money. I think it was getting very little use by new users and it complicated the product.
And these days you can use a Dropbox API app to get something just as good and in some ways better than the public folder. Check out https://www.site44.com/ It has no problem linking to free Dropbox accounts. (though it is a paid service...)
Re: Dropbox Professional
#87Why 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…
Because their competition isn't just the storage story. Microsoft's counter is Office + Storage + Sway + + + for the same price for a 5-person license (which covers multiple installs per user).
Dropbox can either add features or slash prices.
Re: Dropbox Professional
#88As a paying Dropbox subscriber for many years, all I see is Dropbox removing features (like public folders) or making existing features worse (current situation of search is insanely bad). I for one am looking at alternatives now.
Re: Dropbox Professional
#89I 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…
I agree with you on all counts...and the only nitpicky thing i have with microsoft on this is that onedrive has no linux client. And in my family - while everyone else is on a PC - i have my linux laptop. but, yeah for a family who needs office (for docs, school, etc.) and basic storage, office 365 is hard to beat. (And, i should caveat that i am far from the type of person who would be considered a fan of anything that microsoft does.)
Re: Dropbox Professional
#90If you need to, here is how you cancel your dropbox account... they don't make it easy to find. www.dropbox.com/downgrade
Errr, I don't get this reaction. If you were already a Dropbox customer, you haven't lost a single feature, right?