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I think your first point about enterprise vs consumer is very true. I don't even think it's a recent change. What I disagree with is your opinion about VC mone
by tschwimmer 7y ago
I think your first point about enterprise vs consumer is very true. I don't even think it's a recent change.
What I disagree with is your opinion about VC money. If they didn't take VC money Dropbox in its current state wouldn't exist. The costs to support free accounts is staggering - there is a very real dollar cost associated with running a giant farm of storage servers. But free accounts are also crucial to Dropbox's business. It's very natural to run out of space and then decide to upgrade to a paid account. So you can see there's a bootstrapping problem. How do you support these free users while they add enough stuff to convert? This seems like a pretty good usecase for VC to me.
I'd also push back a bit on sticking to 'their core vision.' I don't know how much more there is to do there: Dropbox is already best in class in sync and backup. I'm not saying there are no improvements, but they are decidedly more incremental than in the business collaboration space.
- xupybd 7y agoI used to pay for Dropbox but they removed support for my file system at work. So I no longer have a use case for Dropbox.
- mixmastamyk 7y agoCurious why they would be operating at that level?
- epberry 7y agoI would guess it was an encrypted Linux filesystem. We went through that. It was a pain to get it switched.
- AndrewDavis 7y agoIt's not just encrypted file systems that are no longer supported. Ext4 is the only supported filesystem. No xfs, btrfs, zfs etc.
- brianwawok 7y agoLuckily you can make a tiny ext4 mount for Dropbox and leave the rest of your drive alone.
- marchenko 7y agoIt was quite aggravating when my shared Dropbox folder on a dual-boot Windows/Linux System lost support. It was the main reason I switched from GDrive to Dropbox (besides trying to gradually de-Google). Now I have 2 Dropbox folders on one machine.
- xupybd 7y agohttps://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Error-messages/Dropbox-client-warns-me-that-it-ll-stop-syncing-in-Nov-why/m-p/290058#M42250 https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Error-messages/Dropbox-clien... The cost of maintaining support was too high I think. There are very few of us using unsupported file systems.