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Who's using Dropbox as a long-term backup strategy? Also, it's just a folder on your machine, switching to a competitor is pointing exactly one folder to the ne
by alexro 15y ago
Who's using Dropbox as a long-term backup strategy? Also, it's just a folder on your machine, switching to a competitor is pointing exactly one folder to the new storage, isn't it?
And it should be possible to use two or more services an the same time, building new revision history while still using Dropbox. Then switching over altogether. Sounds rather simple to me.
- edanm 15y ago"Who's using Dropbox as a long-term backup strategy". I am, and I'm guessing plenty of others are too. Although I don't really use the revisions feature, so technically you're correct, I'd have no problem switching to a competitor. But it'll be really hard to compete with Dropbox, and for something so important to me, price isn't the most important issue.
- maximusprime 15y agoI don't see why it would be so hard to compete. Isn't dropbox a pretty simple thing? It's just storing your stuff, with some sync things etc. Seems like the barrier to entry is "Stores my files and doesn't lose them"?
- blankenship 15y agoMichael Wolfe answered this perfectly on Quora: Well, let's take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do: There would be a folder. You'd put your stuff in it. It would sync. They built that. Why didn't anyone else build that? I have no idea. http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-than-other-programs-with-similar-functionality/answer/Michael-Wolfe http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...