Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
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Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
#2People stick with Dropbox for a simple reason: they do the syncing thing faster and more painlessly than anyone else out there.
If Apple ever gets their act together and makes iCloud actually fast and reliable a syncing service, Dropbox might be in trouble.
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#3People stick with Dropbox for a simple reason: they do the syncing thing faster and more painlessly than anyone else out there. If Apple ever gets their act together and makes iCloud actually fast and reliable a syncing service, Dropbox might be in trouble.
It's a safe bet that 80-90% of dropbox users are on a PC.
Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
#4People stick with Dropbox for a simple reason: they do the syncing thing faster and more painlessly than anyone else out there. If Apple ever gets their act together and makes iCloud actually fast and reliable a syncing service, Dropbox might be in trouble.
It's a safe bet that 80-90% of dropbox users are on a PC.
Based on what?
Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
#5People stick with Dropbox for a simple reason: they do the syncing thing faster and more painlessly than anyone else out there. If Apple ever gets their act together and makes iCloud actually fast and reliable a syncing service, Dropbox might be in trouble.
What's the actual issue with iCloud? It takes three seconds to turn it on, and select what I want to sync. Done. Backing up, syncing calendars, contacts, and notes to all my devices with zero problem.
Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
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#7Unless I'm reading this wrong, the takeaway from this article is that Dropbox is a reasonably successful company, with enviable brand-recognition and reach, that's `suffering' from being overvalued early on and is simply no longer hot and new. That seems like a reasonably good problem to have, and is certainly better than being a loss-maker.
Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
#8People stick with Dropbox for a simple reason: they do the syncing thing faster and more painlessly than anyone else out there. If Apple ever gets their act together and makes iCloud actually fast and reliable a syncing service, Dropbox might be in trouble.
What's the actual issue with iCloud? It takes three seconds to turn it on, and select what I want to sync. Done. Backing up, syncing calendars, contacts, and notes to all my devices with zero problem.
dropbox is so easy, people accidentally install the client on the way to their files. i dont see people accidently installing icloud. i cant see anyone making the case that icloud is EASIER to initialize than dropbox. it just ISNT better at being foolproof. no matter how foolish you are, you cant screw up getting dropbox going.
Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
#9My dropbox scenario is I have a 2TB HD and 2TB dropbox storage with the 1year packrat service. I record and edit music on the HD and dropbox is always syncing my changes. The next day, when I'm at work, I can pull up the website and listen to the stuff I worked on the previous night. If I go into a studio I connect to dropbox and sync whatever folder(s) that contains the song(s) I'm working on. When I get home the files are there.
Once I forgot to disconnect my dropbox and someone at the studio trashed the folders and they were deleted on my home machine. I remotely disconnected their connection from the web interface and restored my folders to the previous checkpoint.
I can't imagine a simpler, more efficient mechanism for keeping things organized and backed up. I also have a separate backup service on the same drive of course, just in case.
The only annoyance with dropbox I have is there are certain scenarios where you can't play audio from the website and are forced to download it, which is annoying when sharing links.
That and I wish I could give them more money for more space.
Re: Dropbox May Not Be LeBron James, but Is Still in the Game
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the actual issue with iCloud? It takes three seconds to turn it on, and select what I want to sync. Done. Backing up, syncing calendars, contacts, and notes to all my devices with zero problem.
dropbox is so easy, people accidentally install the client on the way to their files. i dont see people accidently installing icloud. i cant see anyone making the case that icloud is EASIER to initialize than dropbox. it just ISNT better at being foolproof. no matter how foolish you are, you cant screw up getting dropbox going.
Dropbox easier to use on Windows, I will give you that. iCloud is DEFINITELY easier to use on Apple products.