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> everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files Dropbox feels more and more like Evernote all the time. I don't know what is the purpose of this prod
by bachmeier 5y ago
> everything that has nothing to do with syncing my files
Dropbox feels more and more like Evernote all the time. I don't know what is the purpose of this product. To get people to pay $10/month for their storage service?
I can get a family plan from Microsoft with 1 TB of storage for each of six people, plus their office apps, for $100/year. I can get 2 TB from Google or Apple for the same price as Dropbox, but they have lower price points too. Google and Apple storage are already on your device when you buy it. A Chromebook comes with Google Drive for 1 year for free.
Rather than accepting reality, Dropbox appears to be stuck in 2012 where people think of them when they think of cloud storage, and they think that slapping additional features on top will make up for their pricing.
- jpalomaki 5y agoFor me the point of Dropbox is sync that works so well that I can even manage development projects on the shared folder. In my experience the Microsoft syncing is not even close match. This is likely also problem for Dropbox. For heavy users their main costs must come from bandwidth and processing - not raw storage.
- lttlrck 5y agoI use syncthing doing that across Linux, macOS and windows. It's fire and forget.
- peakaboo 5y agoDropbox syncs anything you put on your file system across computers, the others don't.