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I've been a long time DB user. The company has always given me some weird feelings, but the execution of the syncing and clients has been better than anybody el
by bane 11y ago
I've been a long time DB user. The company has always given me some weird feelings, but the execution of the syncing and clients has been better than anybody else up till now. I have to say though, if I had as easy to use a set of multiplatform clients that let me just use the storage I have on my home network I'd drop them in a hot minute.
And I think that's part of DB's problem. That's really all they do. Sure there's some oddball photosyncing or whatever. But after all these years DB has yet to figure out really anything other than being a "cloud bucket" for people to dump things into. It's a platform at best without a real killer app.
Really obvious extensions of DB have yet to materialize: like file hosting, or web-site hosting right out of your DB. I'm a (very) amateur musician, how awesome would it be if I could distribute/sell my music right out of my db -- as simply as just copying up another song file -- and having a store automatically update with the new inventory (and DB gets a cut)?
Or let me host a hobby site where I distro my new open-source cat sharing software?
DB's strength to me has always been the ability to get stuff up and on the internet quickly and simply without fussing with ftp/scp/sftp/etc. clients and servers, hunting down hosting providers, building web servers etc.
But the execution of sharing off of that space in the cloud has been fussy, changes all the time and DB severely caps external transfers.
What if the DB client was a P2P client also, so when I go to download the latest Mitch Murder album (which he's hosting out of his dropbox and will revenue split with DB), DB doesn't have to swallow all the bandwidth of the download because all the free DB users are helping split the load and making themselves more valuable than the leeches they all are?
Or how about if paying customers could set up several paying accounts on a system and easily switch between them instead of the mess for multiple user accounts right now (under the excuse it prevents free users from leeching).
Why is a company with 1200 employees worth $10billion unable to come up with these easy ideas and instead get caught up in an enterprise cloud storage provider battle with a dozen other companies?
Why are the clients slowly getting worse?
What the hell are people doing there except admiring the fake antler mounts? [1]
1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAfIDUTPJJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAfIDUTPJJM