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I don't know, that's one of the biggest benefits of Dropbox, I tell someone I'll add a shared drive and 9 times out of ten they already have a Dropbox account (
by ry0ohki 15y ago
I don't know, that's one of the biggest benefits of Dropbox, I tell someone I'll add a shared drive and 9 times out of ten they already have a Dropbox account (in my tech world bubble at least)
- nostromo 15y agoTimes they already have a Google account: 10/10
- GoodIntentions 15y agoYeah, but some folks have come to the same conclusion as jacquesm ( above ) and use the big G as little as possible. Sure, I have a google account. I almost never use it. For me, the epiphany came when my adsense account was suspended years ago. For what I never found out. I appealed and was reinstated. I then pulled adsense from every site. Lesson learned, and I don't need to learn it again.
- ry0ohki 15y agoPresumably there is some software to be installed as well, but yeah I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the press releases of 170 million Google Drive users come out!
- nextstep 15y agoAnd the tenth time you get a referral bonus, and Dropbox gets another user!
- CamperBob 15y agoDoes this sharing process still carve a giant hunk out of the recipient's Dropbox space allocation, though? That's what I don't understand about any of these services -- Google, Dropbox, and whoever else. If anything is "unlimited" these days, it's disk space. At this level of play 5 GB is about 25 cents worth of storage at most. Paying for disk space in the cloud is no smarter than renting a cable box from Comcast or leasing your phone from AT&T. If Dropbox could just get past the notion that disk space is worth anything, their value proposition would become a lot more interesting. If bandwidth is the real concern, which I imagine it is, then they need to find a way to charge for that instead.