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Box Refreshes Its iOS Apps, Gives Users Who Download Them 50GB Of Free Storage
- chippy 13y agoStorage space is so cheap nowadays. I find it very hard to be enticed by even more free cloud storage. I doubt that offering me more and more would help. I would be interested in an application that makes agreements with the ISPs that have throttling or download limits so that traffic to and from their servers don't count.
- malditojavi 13y agoIndeed. Offering for free something that gets cheaper as time passes, I don't if can be considered as clever marketing or not.
- gcb0 13y agonot to mention you got 50g for referring a friend, or just registering a second account, so almost everyone already is at 50g
- blueblob 13y agoI believe that it was clever marketing when google first did it when gmail was first released. I feel like the storage is only part of the service, it's access to your files everywhere that they are really trying to sell.
- BlackDeath3 13y agoKnowing that most cars are bound to depreciate quickly wouldn't stop me from accepting a nice, new, free one.
- slg 13y agoYeah, with storage so cheap who needs net neutrality?
- rschmitty 13y ago> Storage space is so cheap nowadays. Someone tell Dropbox of this news
- samolang 13y agoI pay $99 a year for >100GB. You don't think that's cheap?
- dangrossman 13y agoA 1TB hard drive retails for $50. If you're only considering the cost of the storage itself, disregarding the value of the service it's attached to, $99/year is expensive.
- toomuchtodo 13y ago> If you're only considering the cost of the storage itself, disregarding the value of the service it's attached to, $99/year is expensive. Dropbox isn't storage (cold, unconnected drive). It's universal storage with multiple endpoints of connectivity, always available. This isn't to create an argument of any sort, but just to clarify they're two different things for those who might not understand that.
- samolang 13y agoNot to mention redundancy. That's the biggest plus for me. Don't want to have to worry about hard drive failures.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoYou still do. Replication =! Backups. You should be taking snapshots in time of your Dropbox account (unless you're using their Packrat offering, which provides versioning).
- samolang 13y ago
- BrownBuffalo 13y agoDear Tech Crunch staff. Please stop making your videos auto-play in IE and Chrome. Seriously ... 10 videos on one page and they ALL started up, playing. Conform to freegen standards from the W3C. I would have been ok with my IE browser, but it had the same bizzaro world experience in Chrome.
- deadfall 13y agoI've tweeted at them telling them that their home page had autoplaying videos with all sound on. What a nightmare. I stopped going to TC so much after that.
- vezycash 13y agoYou're complaining to the wrong company. Chrome has 'click to play' option for flash. Why can't we control video? Youtube conflict of interest maybe. We can disable javascript, images, even audio. Why not Videos? Screaming at webmasters to behave ethically, or app developer to not steal data is naive and idealistic. Scream at google, mozilla, microsoft and the rest to give US control over our browser is that too much to ask in this day and age? Or has following apple's "we know what's best for you" philosophy clouded their common sense? The browser is to blame!
- streetnigga 13y ago"You're complaining to the wrong company." The company that embeds the videos should consider how said media is presented to it's users. It is a weird concept yes I know. Just try to contemplate it.
- drdaeman 13y agoIt depends on how you view a website-browser relationship. If you believe your browser displaying a site is under third-party control, then yes, it's third party that's responsible for presentation issues. If you believe since something running in your browser then you and browser vendor are responsible for presenting the contents in a manner you want it, then, well, it's another way. Actually, I think one should complain to both companies.
- philip1209 13y agoFun fact: If you interview with recruiters at storage companies, they'll often add free space to your personal account.
- rodrodrod 13y agoDropbox often recruits at my alma mater, they'll always have stacks of free 10gb/15gb space expansion cards (with some redeemable code) to hand out. Big hit with the students.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoA few years back, I was supposed to have a sysadmin interview with Dropbox. The guy on the phone said, "Not sure why we're doing this, we already have someone in mind. Sorry for wasting your time. What's your email address?" As soon as I was off the phone, I had an extra 10GB of Dropbox storage for free. I thought it was mighty classy of him for my time.
- izzydata 13y agoMediafire also seems to be doing 50gb as well as Mega. Now they just all need desktop syncing programs with easily accessible public sharing urls and decent traffic bandwidth.
- drdaeman 13y agoWhat they really need are TAHOE-LAFS backends, so one'd get 50+50+50 GiB on free offers and have a generous 100 GiB of fault-tolerant secure storage (or 150 GiB, if they're greedy or consider services going down is not a problem) ;)
- izzydata 13y agoPersonally I don't really need more storage unless it is in a really usable format. I have 10TiB in my personal computer for that.
- joelrunyon 13y agoI feel like I got 50GB from Box when I signed up like 2 years ago. I still haven't use it at all. Dropbox, drive & even mega seem to be more seamless :-/
- anguster 13y agoI got 50GB by connecting to my LG phone not too long ago.
- malditojavi 13y agoA startup which core business is collect in just one place all the free storage provided as marketing growth tactic from other cloud storage startups.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoBut would you stripe or mirror? :-)
- toomuchtodo 13y agoThe though of psuedo-RAID6 across multiple storage providers makes me want to cry into a beer.
- btgeekboy 13y agoThe 250MB/file limit on free accounts is brutal. (It used to be even smaller, something like 100MB, but they relented and increased it somewhat recently.) Even worse, the client doesn't tell you when it's not copying the file because it's too big - it pretends everything is just fine and dandy.
- csmattryder 13y agoI just got 50GB on Google Drive on my new Moto G, I'll use about a tenth of that, at a push. It's at the point where giving away your product for free is no longer a large-impact sales tactic, wonder how they'll innovate?
- loceng 13y agoThis is merely to offer a service of equal value. I'm not sure as an individual service it's possible to innovate. It's what you build that plugs into that service that can make it more valuable, more useful.
- codys 13y agoI agree, though you may be underestimating the amount of space heavy users of file syncing services can consume: For a single (1) robotics project in college we had CAD models, fundraising materials, reports, and documentation in dropbox. It's still there and consuming 3.8GB of space. As soon as multiple projects (consecutively or in parallel) are using the same storage space, it even 50GB might get tight.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoShame that a) iOS only b) iOS 6+ only. I wonder what they're doing that couldn't be done with software barely a year old; it must be pretty mind-blowing, world-changing stuff.
- ry0ohki 13y agoYou use iOS5? The adoption rate of iOS7 is already at like 80%
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoiPad1. No other option.
- umsm 13y agoI wouldn't design a new product for ipad 1 users. The tech is too old to invest any time into it.
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoI certainly wouldn't design a new product for ipad 1 users but - and, admittedly, I don't know how much effort is required - I would consider supporting them. In the same way that I wouldn't design a website for IE8 users, but I would certainly support them. How old do you think it's reasonable to support tech for nowadays? Bear in mind that the iPad1 was released just three and a half years ago, and was then updated a year later. iOS 6 has only been around for just over a year. So are you suggesting that the maximum life span for a $500-800 piece of tech should be 2 years? Or 1 year? I'd protest at even 3 and a half years, personally.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoI brought an iPad 1 to Florida for my grandmother to use. All I needed was Safari and Gmail. Gmail needs iOS6? WTF? Its not Angry Birds, its a damn mail app. Mail app worked out with Imap, but still!
- kombine 13y agocloud.mail.ru offers free 1Tb for life if you register until 20 January. Yes the interface is in Russian(at least for the desktop app) and rough at edges, but still worth spending 5 minutes registering. Edit. The interface of the Android app is available in English. Also, being an active Dropbox user, Mail.ru solution is obviously less polished and still in beta. But it is an established company in Russia(I would guess second biggest internet media holding), and you can somewhat rely on them.
- glomph 13y agoDo you not need a russian phone number?
- kombine 13y agoYou could specify it as a means to restore the password, but it is not necessary. Other options include secret question, or alternative email address.
- glomph 13y agoI wasn't able to sign up for an email account without one until I found this link http://e.mail.ru/cgi-bin/login?lang=en_US http://e.mail.ru/cgi-bin/login?lang=en_US where you can use any phone number (but still require one to sign up).
- jordsmi 13y agoOr you can just click "I don't have a mobile phone." and sign up with a security question...
- ereckers 13y agoWould there be noticeable performance issues if one were to run Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box simultaneously?
- arikrak 13y agoWhat about Skydrive and SugarSync?
- gpo 13y ago1. Box offers WebDAV. 2. Zotero can store files in a WebDAV server.
- teddyh 13y agoFor a little over $200 I can get a 50GiB USB flash drive. If I can pay more and buy one five times as large, I can get below $1 per GiB. Why would I need cloud storage for these sizes?
- nixarn 13y agoIsn't this kinda missing the point? First of all this was free, but Box is like Dropbox, so it syncs files between computers and you can access them in your phone.
- teddyh 13y agoHow can I not access a flash drive in my phone? It’s in my hand. I can just plug it in. If I want to access the files from a computer, I plug it into the computer. That’s my point. “Cloud” storage is completely unnecessary for these storage sizes, as I can just carry my personal data with me.
- izzydata 13y agoYou can get a 256GB flash drive for $200. A 64GB is only about $40 these days.
- rpx 13y agoLooks like Android users are out in the cold on this one. Any filesize limitations?
- rshlo 13y agoI wish they'll put some effort to make Linux client. Definitely a minus for me right now.
- eevilspock 13y agoI'm sure the NSA is loving this.