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Lmao at Dropbox. They're forced to claim they're innovating to keep their value up, so they come up with a ton of stuff that nobody wants, completely destroying

Lmao at Dropbox. They're forced to claim they're innovating to keep their value up, so they come up with a ton of stuff that nobody wants, completely destroying the reputation of the single simple thing they were initial highly respected for.

nojito 4y ago
Steve Jobs was right >And so he started trolling us a little bit, saying we’re a feature, not a product, and telling us a bunch of things like that we don’t control an operating system so we’re going to be disadvantaged, we’re going to have to figure out distribution deals, which are risky, and sort of a bunch of business-plan critiques. But then he was like, ‘Alright, well I guess we’re gonna have to go kill you, basically.’ Maybe not in those words, but pretty close.
- Uehreka 4y ago
  He was right, but he was also years early. It took Apple 5-ish years after that (I’m assuming this conversation was around 2009) to ship iCloud Drive, and then some more years to add things like shared folders (it took them two tries I think). By that point Dropbox was down the Enterprise Hole, but a 10-ish year run isn’t bad for a product, many great products or product categories have had shorter lifetimes.
NeverFade 4y ago
They can't compete with that "single thing" when every massive tech company offers that same service with enormous advantages in scale.
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  I've used solutions from other companies, but I kept coming back to Dropbox because ultimately it worked best. The client implementation really matters. Every time they degrade the client experience, I start to ponder moving to something else again. I don't need fancy, I just need it to work every time.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    You might. But as an individual consumer, you don’t matter. The money comes from the “enterprise”.
  - chipotle_coyote 4y ago
    Dropbox does work the best, but some years back they took out their “middle tier” so you couldn’t just pay a few bucks a month, then a year or two after that sharply limited the free tier, took away the public folder, etc. At some point I had to ask myself “is this so much better than iCloud for my personal syncing and an FTP share directory for a public folder replacement,” and realized the answer for me was “no.”
bayindirh 4y ago
Actually I understand where they're coming from, but this ecosystem doesn't work with Linux well, and this hurts the utility of the Dropbox a lot, if you have one or more Linux systems under your account. They don't want to dedicate the necessary resources to keep their sync clients in top shape in recent times. That's kinda troubling.
_jal 4y ago
I have friends, mostly musicians, who use them, and it drives me nuts. I'm almost at the point of building a VM strictly for it, I'm certainly not going to install that garbage on my daily-use machines. I would literally pay them a buck as an annoyance tax each time I have to suck a file out of there, if they would make it painless to do via a browser.
- skinnymuch 4y ago
  Dropbox is way better than all the huge tech me too alternatives.

nojito 4y ago

Steve Jobs was right >And so he started trolling us a little bit, saying we’re a feature, not a product, and telling us a bunch of things like that we don’t control an operating system so we’re going to be disadvantaged, we’re going to have to figure out distribution deals, which are risky, and sort of a bunch of business-plan critiques. But then he was like, ‘Alright, well I guess we’re gonna have to go kill you, basically.’ Maybe not in those words, but pretty close.

Uehreka 4y ago
He was right, but he was also years early. It took Apple 5-ish years after that (I’m assuming this conversation was around 2009) to ship iCloud Drive, and then some more years to add things like shared folders (it took them two tries I think). By that point Dropbox was down the Enterprise Hole, but a 10-ish year run isn’t bad for a product, many great products or product categories have had shorter lifetimes.

NeverFade 4y ago

They can't compete with that "single thing" when every massive tech company offers that same service with enormous advantages in scale.

rootusrootus 4y ago
I've used solutions from other companies, but I kept coming back to Dropbox because ultimately it worked best. The client implementation really matters. Every time they degrade the client experience, I start to ponder moving to something else again. I don't need fancy, I just need it to work every time.
- scarface74 4y ago
  You might. But as an individual consumer, you don’t matter. The money comes from the “enterprise”.
- chipotle_coyote 4y ago
  Dropbox does work the best, but some years back they took out their “middle tier” so you couldn’t just pay a few bucks a month, then a year or two after that sharply limited the free tier, took away the public folder, etc. At some point I had to ask myself “is this so much better than iCloud for my personal syncing and an FTP share directory for a public folder replacement,” and realized the answer for me was “no.”

bayindirh 4y ago

Actually I understand where they're coming from, but this ecosystem doesn't work with Linux well, and this hurts the utility of the Dropbox a lot, if you have one or more Linux systems under your account. They don't want to dedicate the necessary resources to keep their sync clients in top shape in recent times. That's kinda troubling.

_jal 4y ago

I have friends, mostly musicians, who use them, and it drives me nuts. I'm almost at the point of building a VM strictly for it, I'm certainly not going to install that garbage on my daily-use machines. I would literally pay them a buck as an annoyance tax each time I have to suck a file out of there, if they would make it painless to do via a browser.

skinnymuch 4y ago
Dropbox is way better than all the huge tech me too alternatives.