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People 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 to
by zyxley 11y ago
People 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.
- CptJamesCook 11y agoIt's a safe bet that 80-90% of dropbox users are on a PC.
- thinkingkong 11y agoBased on what?
- shampine 11y agoSafety. Edit: It was probably a reference to that it is "preinstalled" on retail machines.
- Toenex 11y agoGiven Apples 7.6% share of the 'PC' market as reported in 3Q15 (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3146617 http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3146617) I wouldn't be suprised that the vast majority of dropbox users are on Windows, simply because the vast majority of computer users are.
- gaius 11y agoIt's not about users. Its about paying customers.
- noam87 11y ago(Some of us on Linux)
- jeorgun 11y agoIf it's more than 10-20% of Dropbox users, that says pretty bad things about their market share.
- overcast 11y agoWhat'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.
- basch 11y agodropbox 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.
- overcast 11y agoDropbox easier to use on Windows, I will give you that. iCloud is DEFINITELY easier to use on Apple products.
- ssmoot 11y agoDitto. Pretty sure having iCloud on is actually the default in the El Capitan (latest OSX) setup. It integrates really nicely to become the default document storage location for most (non-developer) apps as well. The only trouble I had was to have it replace the "Documents" folder in the Dock so I could just treat it like a cloud version of the regular documents folder.
- josteink 11y ago> What's the actual issue with iCloud? I'll admit I haven't tried yet, but I'm going to hazard a guess that if I try to setup icloud on my Linux machines at home or my Android devices, I'm not going to get very far. With Dropbox I get all the way, everywhere, with no hassles. Thus Dropbox has my business.
- overcast 11y agoThat's like saying well I'm not going to get very far running a Playstation 4 game on my Super Nintendo. You can't count software that isn't even supported on a system. Yes, DropBox has a client for many systems, but saying DropBox is better because iCloud doesn't even exist on Linux make no sense.