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So why exactly would anyone use Dropbox now? There is nothing to differentiate them. Their sync is just must faster and they actually do block-level sync, whic
by microtonal 4y ago
So why exactly would anyone use Dropbox now? There is nothing to differentiate them.
Their sync is just must faster and they actually do block-level sync, which the other major providers still haven't implemented yet after over ten years. I understand why people go to the competition, but I think it's a mistake. The FAANG offerings just provide enough (especially disk space) to lure people into their ecosystems, but they don't really care much about file sync, and therefore they are all quite miserable.
It is a bit like Microsoft Teams. Companies choose Teams because they have an Office365 subscription for Microsoft Office anyway and it is cheaper than Slack. On the surface, Slack does not seem to have much of a competitive advantage anymore. So, if you are simply bean counting, it's clear that you should switch to Teams. But in the meanwhile, everyone using Teams feels miserable to be trapped in it.
- MikusR 4y agoOneDrive does block level sync
- microtonal 4y agoAh, cool, I missed that they added it in 2020. Google Drive still doesn't seem to support it.
- MikusR 4y agoGoogle Drive also used to (maybe still does) change names of your files if they contained parenthesis.
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- smoldesu 4y agoI think most people are using block-level sync. Hell, even Syncthing has block-level synchronization now.
- solarkraft 4y ago> Hell, even Syncthing has block-level synchronization now. I thought it (BEP) was always a core feature?