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There has been several things: • Dropbox has failed to improve their offering and even for a paying customer you do not get anything more for your money today
by gutnor 8y ago
There has been several things:
• Dropbox has failed to improve their offering and even for a paying customer you do not get anything more for your money today than you were getting several years ago. That is not objectively a bad thing, I mean a spoon has hardly evolved in hundred of years and is still worth every penny. But this is HN and that's a bit of a sin around here.
• In search of profitability Dropbox has used several dark marketting patterns. Its website also pushes way too much business/team option that are per user/per month. A lof of people on HN are private user and they basically have access to a single option.
• The new features that Dropbox did introduce work only for corporate/team user. There is now a Professional user but it costs a standard business plan for 2 users with less feature.
• There was some complain about the Mac OS client uses of apis.
Despite the negativity, HN users seems major paying users. So I think rather than negativity it is more disappointment. The feeling that Dropbox could have been so much more and they would have paid for it gladly, but it is instead becoming a network feature for large companies and startup.
- spectramax 8y agoI think you could say the same thing about GMail. It looks and works the same way as it did 15 years ago. At times, less is more and feature creep ends up being like Microsoft Outlook - bloated, slow and frustrating to use. I don't love my set of spoons like I love Dropbox, Digital Ocean, Eames Lounge Chair, Sublime Text/Merge and Teenage Engineering synthesizers. There are a handful of companies that give you immense pleasure in using their products daily.
- ymolodtsov 8y agoGmail changed a lot and its new design is just great although some people might disagree with me. It’s also free.