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I know I'm not being original when I say I'm really not optimistic about their future. There service is extremely easy to replicate, as seen by all the giant co

by make3 9y ago

I know I'm not being original when I say I'm really not optimistic about their future. There service is extremely easy to replicate, as seen by all the giant companies who have done so, and all of these giant companies can give better service for free just as an incentive for people to increase their dependancy on their ecosystem (like microsoft and apple do quite aggressively, and google, to a lesser degree)

quietbritishjim 9y ago
To back up your point, for the same price as 1TB of storage on Dropbox you can get MS Office 365 (for 5 devices), which comes with 1TB of storage on OneDrive. Not everyone uses Office of course, but if you do you'd be nuts to pay for Dropbox. It's IE bundled free with Windows all over again.
- briandear 9y ago
  I'd rather pay Dropbox more and not have to have the overhead and constant nag of the Microsoft ecosystem -- not to mention Microsoft's questionable privacy policies -- i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7369163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7369163 Or the privacy mess that is Windows 10... 1TB on Dropbox is $9.99 per month. That's a bargain. I'm not really one to use an inferior product just to save a few dollars.
  - make3 9y ago
    you're likely a dev, so a very special case of super performant user with strong ideas about computers, not very representative of the average consumer, who knows and likes the Office suite. Same goes for icloud and the iOS/Mac ecosystem, and Google drive, etc.
- ericd 9y ago
  Are the Linux/OS X/iOS/Android clients for OneDrive good? Because one of the major selling points for Dropbox for me is that their native clients are uniformly excellent, and I rarely have to think about it - it just works everywhere.
- djsumdog 9y ago
  The few times I've tried OneDrive I was met with frequent crashing and disappearing documents. They had two version for Windows 8 (the touch screen UI one and the office one) which really seemed like they conflicted with each other. When I used OneDrive, it also didn't sync files. If you opened something in Word from OneDrive, it created it in a temp folder and resynced when you saved it (hence the disappearing documents because of their buggy implementation). And of course, OneDrive doesn't work on Linux. It's garbage and it's one of the reasons that Microsoft latched onto Dropbox with Office integration because their product was just that horrible.
RachelF 9y ago
My personal experience is that Dropbox just works, and works well and reliably and quickly on all platforms. OneDrive is almost as good, but Google Drive is not, especially their client is unreliable.

by make3 9y ago

quietbritishjim 9y ago

To back up your point, for the same price as 1TB of storage on Dropbox you can get MS Office 365 (for 5 devices), which comes with 1TB of storage on OneDrive. Not everyone uses Office of course, but if you do you'd be nuts to pay for Dropbox. It's IE bundled free with Windows all over again.

briandear 9y ago
I'd rather pay Dropbox more and not have to have the overhead and constant nag of the Microsoft ecosystem -- not to mention Microsoft's questionable privacy policies -- i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7369163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7369163 Or the privacy mess that is Windows 10... 1TB on Dropbox is $9.99 per month. That's a bargain. I'm not really one to use an inferior product just to save a few dollars.
- make3 9y ago
  you're likely a dev, so a very special case of super performant user with strong ideas about computers, not very representative of the average consumer, who knows and likes the Office suite. Same goes for icloud and the iOS/Mac ecosystem, and Google drive, etc.
ericd 9y ago
Are the Linux/OS X/iOS/Android clients for OneDrive good? Because one of the major selling points for Dropbox for me is that their native clients are uniformly excellent, and I rarely have to think about it - it just works everywhere.
djsumdog 9y ago
The few times I've tried OneDrive I was met with frequent crashing and disappearing documents. They had two version for Windows 8 (the touch screen UI one and the office one) which really seemed like they conflicted with each other. When I used OneDrive, it also didn't sync files. If you opened something in Word from OneDrive, it created it in a temp folder and resynced when you saved it (hence the disappearing documents because of their buggy implementation). And of course, OneDrive doesn't work on Linux. It's garbage and it's one of the reasons that Microsoft latched onto Dropbox with Office integration because their product was just that horrible.

RachelF 9y ago

My personal experience is that Dropbox just works, and works well and reliably and quickly on all platforms. OneDrive is almost as good, but Google Drive is not, especially their client is unreliable.