What Problem is Dropbox Solving at this point?
Genuine question - as someone who use to use Dropbox and be a paying customer, throughout maybe the last 4 or 5 years I've just switched to Google drive, or if needed for work or school one drive. I haven't used Dropbox's product in many years now, but what problem are they solving at this point that's not already integrated with someone's Gmail or Microsoft account? Is their business model still viable? Anyone know if they've tapped into other parts of the field? I'm curious who's still using them and why? Edit: just wanted to say I'm not trying to trash talk the product either, it just seems that it's been integrated with other products that people use on a far more regular basis kinda deeming Dropbox and obsolete solution - as far as I can tell. #tech
2gb for the free tier is 🥜 too
Yeah I remember that being a problem hence the reason why I upgraded to their premium model. But back that everyone used dbox, I'm not sure if maybe it's still highly used in enterprise? Or if I'm just out of touch lol
Disney doesn’t use Dbox at all. We use One-drive that comes with the Ms Suite. But I prefer my G drive. I don’t want anyone to sniff around my stuff.
Survival is their biggest problem.
I’m still using dropbox, reluctantly. Can’t imagine signing up as a new user today. I think they’ve been trying to expand into other parts of the field, for example their (failed?) Dropbox Paper product, and the acquisition of DocuSign.
Dude, what are you smoking? DocuSign is an independent entity.
My bad, the company they acquired was HelloSign.
I think their product is more user friendly than google drive. Also they are implementing more features into their product such as machine learning in their image search by text…imagine searching for images by typing ‘pics of dogs’ and getting the images that correspond to it..also DBX is more safer and private than google …I would never trust google with my personal data
DBX has an edge on big files and huge amount of small files syncing. Some industries need to rely on it afaik as gdrive/one drive cannot handle them efficiently or correctly. Free users may not be able to even hit those cases but we are losing money on free users anyway. That’s probably why we don’t add more space for free users as the more we add, the more money we will lose and it’s not sustainable for us.
I migrated from Dropbox to Google Drive gives me whole lot of free space which I use for docs Only. 2-3 GBs vs 17 GBs overruled by google. I don’t think i will ever fill that up which will require me to clean up about once or twice in a decade.
Yeah.. Google drives free tier is fantastic, and even their price based model now is cheap. I'm unsure of a good reason to use any other cloud file host at this point..
Well not to mention, google doesn’t need any clients to download on OS. I use it as a bookmark which takes me places and I don’t have to backup any of it (I hope not - are you hearing me google?)