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Similar experience here: the paid options are way too expensive for private use, when none of the new features has any value to you. Seems to me that the corre
by japanuspus 5y ago
Similar experience here: the paid options are way too expensive for private use, when none of the new features has any value to you.
Seems to me that the correct strategy for Dropbox would have been to be super focused on the core product and on not hiring in too many people/taking in too much capital. That would of course have introduced a market cap, but if 1% of everyone had ended up on a reasonably priced personal plan it would have been a roomy cap.
As it was, Dropbox has grown into yet-another ms-office-in-the-sky and there is no way they will make it against their competitors who can burn the cash, and who are slowly catching up on sync technology.
This is really a shame too: Dropbox is just the gold standard for sync. Before Dropbox I was using unison[0] and tried every other sync product, but nothing came close. TBH I am still using Dropbox every day, getting around the device limit by sharing stuff with multiple free accounts...
[0]: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
- omniscient_oce 5y agoI'm looking to setup Unison to replace Dropbox because I think their service is a bit overpriced, how did you find it?