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Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by michaelcampbell »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #18

Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. I find it pretty astonishing that such a mature product: - Is slow - Demolishes my MBP's battery - Has not gotten simpler to use And worst of all, it is completely out of line with what their competition are charging. They want $12.50-15/mo for their most basic plan when their competition is charging $0-1…

I stopped paying and went to the free Syncthing. My one issue is that the windows client silently fails and doesn't restart. Often. On multiple Windows 10 machines I own. The Apple and Linux clients have been rock solid, but the Windows one not, and since I use(d) this app as a way to get files easily to my partner who uses only a Windows box, this was the hard stop to my use case.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by michaelcampbell »

bambax wrote: post #55
jonknee wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Steve Jobs was early, but not wrong about Dropbox being a feature and not a product. I just want a folder that syncs extremely reliably, that's it. They've gone down the corporate rabbithole and now call themselves a "smart workspace" whatever that means.

Maybe, but a feature that works is worth more than a product that doesn't. Dropbox always works, everywhere. I'm old enough to remember a world pre-Drobox (and pre-high bandwidth). I used to work at different places. I kept a laptop in each office, and carried with me Iomega disks that I synced every morning. It was slow and complex and error-prone. Alternatives from either Apple or MS will never work as well, they w…

> Dropbox always works, everywhere.

Nope. My 2-3 windows installs fail way too often. And totally silently. And don't restart. Had to drop from the paid version to bare minimum and move to Syncthing which for me works far better at the cost of more options to config.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by mark_l_watson »

fortran77 wrote: post #33
ProfessorLayton wrote: post #18

Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. I find it pretty astonishing that such a mature product: - Is slow - Demolishes my MBP's battery - Has not gotten simpler to use And worst of all, it is completely out of line with what their competition are charging. They want $12.50-15/mo for their most basic plan when their competition is charging $0-1…

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software In all seriousness, have you looked at OneDrive + Office365? For $70/year you get 1 TB of storage, a client that works on all platforms, plus M…

I agree, best deal going. Also, I really appreciate the web app versions of the Office apps for use on Linux.

Also getting up to date Office apps on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS is valuable to me even if cumulatively I only use them two or three hours a month.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by michaelcampbell »

bitL wrote: post #82
manicdee wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those who do not study ~~history~~ ~~Unix~~ rsync are doomed to repeat it poorly.

I used rsync to mirror one encrypted 14TB drive to another one. It took ~2 weeks. I wouldn't call rsync "good enough".

Something is very, very wrong then. rsync will use 100% of the bandwidth provided. It won't be any slower than anything else you might try over the same network. If you found that to be the case, it's almost certainly something else.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by mynegation »

manicdee wrote: post #85
bitL wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used rsync to mirror one encrypted 14TB drive to another one. It took ~2 weeks. I wouldn't call rsync "good enough".

What was the bottleneck?

I am not bitl but my guesses, in order of probability would be: * using filesystem that is not natively supported on one or both drives, like fuse ntfs on Linux or ext3 on Mac. * copying over slower network like wifi * lots and lots of small files especially in a single directory * usb 2.0

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by plorkyeran »

NoPicklez wrote: post #72
toxik wrote: post #10

Famously, Steve Jobs once called Dropbox “a feature, not a product.”

Steve also said "There’s no better mobile computing tool than your finger"... Now they're rolling out mouse support on the iPad.

Mouse support on iPadOS is explicitly an accessibility feature. It's pretty awkward to use and not what you'd choose if you have a choice.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by toomuchtodo »

npo9 wrote: post #57
cortesoft wrote: post #52

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Only if they wanted VC expected growth..... they could have just stopped adding new features, only had a few employees, and continued to make money charging a small amount for their single feature.

It’s very hard to have solid product, engineering, marketing, sales, and support on any scale without taking VC money.

Backblaze and Basecamp have, to name two.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by balladeer »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #18

Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. I find it pretty astonishing that such a mature product: - Is slow - Demolishes my MBP's battery - Has not gotten simpler to use And worst of all, it is completely out of line with what their competition are charging. They want $12.50-15/mo for their most basic plan when their competition is charging $0-1…

> once iCloud launches file sharing

As an iPhone and MacBook user I'd have happily done that iff it was useful or accessible to my friends and family who are not in the fruit company ecosystem (and that's the majority in my case).

Because I really don't think Apple is going cross platform anytime soon https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204174 https://support.apple.com/kb/ph2609

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