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As a paying Pro customer, I am a bit worried how intent they seem to be on pushing the business/enterprise products. First of all, Dropbox the web application

As a paying Pro customer, I am a bit worried how intent they seem to be on pushing the business/enterprise products. First of all, Dropbox the web application is spammed with Dropbox Business advertising. I am already paying. And, no, my employer (a European university) is unlikely to roll out Dropbox Business. So please stop bugging me :(. Secondly, more and more features are rolled out to business users first. Why? Are regular paying customers going to be treated as second-class citizens to bully them into business accounts?

radicaldreamer 10y ago
I killed my Dropbox Pro account and upgraded iCloud storage because the integration with the Photos app in iOS is way superior and the lack of something like Project Infinite, which results in a lot of manual folder management for my long tail of old docs. Dropbox's core sync technology is still unmatched, but the Pro offering leaves a lot to be desired over some of the better integrated experiences of Google and Apple's photos products. I expect this to become even more of an issues after WWDC.
- bad_user 10y ago
  Going for iCloud, that's an odd decision, frankly. I would have understood Google Drive, but not iCloud. When it comes to my personal photos archive, I care about 2 things: (1) occasional sharing and (2) keeping my huge archive safe. Dropbox does both, iCloud does neither. iCloud sharing only works with people using iDevices and I don't have many acquaintances or family members with a preference for Apple. Dropbox allows for publishing to a web link, with or without a password, with or without an expiration date. And that's cool, because I can send that link to anybody. Cross-platform and all that. In terms of safety, I keep an extra offline backup by means of a home Linux server that's almost always on, synchronizing my Dropbox and does the occasional local backup. It has a big hard-drive of course. Dropbox works on Linux, iCloud does not. Also Dropbox provides a 30-days history of all changes and a 1-year extended history for extra cost. I got the 1-year extended history. With iCloud get some Ransomware and watch in horror how all of your photos are gone.
  - victorhooi 10y ago
    Or look at the recent iTunes fiasco, where they deleted your music on the local HDD, and mis-matched the music in the cloud: https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/ https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-mus...
  - oarsinsync 10y ago
    > When it comes to my personal photos archive, I care about 2 things: (1) occasional sharing and (2) keeping my huge archive safe. Dropbox does both, iCloud does neither. iCloud definitely does occasional sharing. Keeping your archive safe is definitely questionable though. > iCloud sharing only works with people using iDevices and I don't have many acquaintances or family members with a preference for Apple. Dropbox allows for publishing to a web link, with or without a password, with or without an expiration date. And that's cool, because I can send that link to anybody. Cross-platform and all that. I can do that with iCloud Photos. I select a bunch of photos I want to share, I select an existing (or create a new) iCloud shared photo library, and then I enable a web link for them and share that. Works on fruits, robots, glass panes and penguins.
ori_b 10y ago
Businesses pay more, and there is enough free competition for dropbox. It makes sense if they want to make a profit.
coldtea 10y ago
>First of all, Dropbox the web application is spammed with Dropbox Business advertising. I am already paying. Aren't those who are "already paying" the most likely to upgrade? Maybe not you or not your institution, but most. It starts with a few people at a business, and then they update to a business account.
bad_user 10y ago
I'm having the same experience. Ironically, I would upgrade to a business account, if not for the "minimum 5 accounts" limit. Now what in the world would I do with 5 accounts Dropbox? Should I pull like a company out of my ass?
kilroy123 10y ago
I 100% agree. It annoys me greatly, to be a paying customer, and to be nagged to become a business user. It's a bit of a slap in the face, IMO. I don't have a business, I already give you money, and now you want even more?
vegardx 10y ago
I also wish they were more up front about the fact that some features of Dropbox stops working, like Camera Upload, if you transfer your account into a business plan. I don't understand the limitations that stops it from working. I still have my images there, and when I connect my phone to my laptop using USB-cable, Dropbox syncs the images.
tvanantwerp 10y ago
As a business customer, I'm thrilled they are focusing on us. We wanted to migrate our file storage to Dropbox for a while, but never did it because the business features weren't robust enough until recently. I'm excited to see them putting more effort into the features we need to provide our entire company with the kind of user-friendly service Dropbox already has at the individual consumer level.
pritambarhate 10y ago
Yeah, I feel the same. At least give us a simple checkbox, "Don't show this to me again". Every time I open the web application, having to get rid of that pop up is very annoying.

radicaldreamer 10y ago

I killed my Dropbox Pro account and upgraded iCloud storage because the integration with the Photos app in iOS is way superior and the lack of something like Project Infinite, which results in a lot of manual folder management for my long tail of old docs. Dropbox's core sync technology is still unmatched, but the Pro offering leaves a lot to be desired over some of the better integrated experiences of Google and Apple's photos products. I expect this to become even more of an issues after WWDC.

bad_user 10y ago
Going for iCloud, that's an odd decision, frankly. I would have understood Google Drive, but not iCloud. When it comes to my personal photos archive, I care about 2 things: (1) occasional sharing and (2) keeping my huge archive safe. Dropbox does both, iCloud does neither. iCloud sharing only works with people using iDevices and I don't have many acquaintances or family members with a preference for Apple. Dropbox allows for publishing to a web link, with or without a password, with or without an expiration date. And that's cool, because I can send that link to anybody. Cross-platform and all that. In terms of safety, I keep an extra offline backup by means of a home Linux server that's almost always on, synchronizing my Dropbox and does the occasional local backup. It has a big hard-drive of course. Dropbox works on Linux, iCloud does not. Also Dropbox provides a 30-days history of all changes and a 1-year extended history for extra cost. I got the 1-year extended history. With iCloud get some Ransomware and watch in horror how all of your photos are gone.
- victorhooi 10y ago
  Or look at the recent iTunes fiasco, where they deleted your music on the local HDD, and mis-matched the music in the cloud: https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/ https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-mus...
- oarsinsync 10y ago
  > When it comes to my personal photos archive, I care about 2 things: (1) occasional sharing and (2) keeping my huge archive safe. Dropbox does both, iCloud does neither. iCloud definitely does occasional sharing. Keeping your archive safe is definitely questionable though. > iCloud sharing only works with people using iDevices and I don't have many acquaintances or family members with a preference for Apple. Dropbox allows for publishing to a web link, with or without a password, with or without an expiration date. And that's cool, because I can send that link to anybody. Cross-platform and all that. I can do that with iCloud Photos. I select a bunch of photos I want to share, I select an existing (or create a new) iCloud shared photo library, and then I enable a web link for them and share that. Works on fruits, robots, glass panes and penguins.

ori_b 10y ago

Businesses pay more, and there is enough free competition for dropbox. It makes sense if they want to make a profit.

coldtea 10y ago

>First of all, Dropbox the web application is spammed with Dropbox Business advertising. I am already paying. Aren't those who are "already paying" the most likely to upgrade? Maybe not you or not your institution, but most. It starts with a few people at a business, and then they update to a business account.

bad_user 10y ago

I'm having the same experience. Ironically, I would upgrade to a business account, if not for the "minimum 5 accounts" limit. Now what in the world would I do with 5 accounts Dropbox? Should I pull like a company out of my ass?

kilroy123 10y ago

I 100% agree. It annoys me greatly, to be a paying customer, and to be nagged to become a business user. It's a bit of a slap in the face, IMO. I don't have a business, I already give you money, and now you want even more?

vegardx 10y ago

I also wish they were more up front about the fact that some features of Dropbox stops working, like Camera Upload, if you transfer your account into a business plan. I don't understand the limitations that stops it from working. I still have my images there, and when I connect my phone to my laptop using USB-cable, Dropbox syncs the images.

tvanantwerp 10y ago

As a business customer, I'm thrilled they are focusing on us. We wanted to migrate our file storage to Dropbox for a while, but never did it because the business features weren't robust enough until recently. I'm excited to see them putting more effort into the features we need to provide our entire company with the kind of user-friendly service Dropbox already has at the individual consumer level.

pritambarhate 10y ago

Yeah, I feel the same. At least give us a simple checkbox, "Don't show this to me again". Every time I open the web application, having to get rid of that pop up is very annoying.