{"id":25648,"date":"2019-06-13T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25648"},"modified":"2019-11-25T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T22:02:43","slug":"meet-the-new-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/13\/meet-the-new-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emil Protalinski<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Dropbox has doubled the storage space for its Plus users from 1TB to 2TB, added Rewind and Smart Sync features, and increased the price from $10 per month to $12 per month. The company has also increased the storage for its Professional plan from 2TB to 3TB and added a watermarking feature. Additionally, Dropbox will be increasing its Business plans from 3TB to 5TB and extended file version history from 120 days to 180 days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Dropbox on Tuesday announced<\/a> a new client for Mac and Windows that seeks to make the cloud storage service a “meta-platform” for collaborative tools in the productivity workspace. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I’ve been using iCloud Drive more and Dropbox less these days, and to avoid the CPU use problems I quit Dropbox when I’m not using it. These days my main use is to share folders with family members, e.g. for photos and 1Password. iCloud Drive will be getting shared folders in macOS 10.15, but as far as I’m aware there’s no way to actually use them from the iOS version of 1Password.<\/p>\n\n

Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple: We’ve got iCloud folder sharing coming!<\/p>\n

Me: Eh, Dropbox works really well for me and you’re still missing some stuff.<\/p>\n

Dropbox: Enterprise collaboration! Google Docs and Slack inside a Dropbox!<\/p>\n

Me: Uh, you were saying, Apple?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Ben Sandofsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Dropbox now uses over half a gig of memory. Let’s peak into its frameworks folder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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My only two requests for this version of Dropbox were for it to use as much memory as possible and somehow also be a web browser, and boy did they deliver. Thanks, Dropbox.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Ken Hayes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Cheeky of @dropbox to raise subscription cost >20% and double capacity, though I only used 15% of it. Price gap is too large from a $0 useless tier to $120\/yr “rolls royce” Plus. Why not do 500 Gb for $50\/yr tier and pick up way more prosumers? Now evaluating alternatives...<\/p>\n

They’ve got to lose less that 1\/6th (~17%) of the current user base to break even on such a price hike. What’s dumb is that I’m a satisfied user - and would pay $99 forever - but now I’m going to take the effort to look for a better deal - and probably cancel for good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Price<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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So @Dropbox just casually drops an email to tell me they’re raising the price by 54%. […] There is no plan smaller than the 54% increase so I have no choice. Worse customer treatment than an insurance company or a telco.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n