![]() "But," you may say, "this is valuable data.certainly users will feel more comfortable tying their data to Windows Live, Apple Mobile Me, or a name they already know." "But," you may ask, "so much more you could do! What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding. Why didn't anyone else build that? I have no idea. ![]() ![]() Well, let's take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do: Answering “Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?”: This seems like a good time to resurface the worlds best Quora answer, by Michael Wolfe. This got long, so I guess what I'm saying is: Please go back to being a folder that syncs, and I'll be just be ok with your nonchalant mail that you're randomly raising prices. Come on, show me some valuation as customer, or better, nothing at all. Webapp keeps nagging me about upgrading, even though I'm literally using less than 5% of my (paid) plan. I tried doing stuff with Smart Sync (or Selective Sync?) but got lost in the complex matrix of which feature does what on what OS with what plan. Time sensitive file accessing got harder and harder because of continuous UI changes. ![]() "Checking for changes" on my old shitty VAIO running Ubuntu went from taking 5 minutes to taking half an hour to taking 3 hours and never finishing syncing. I always thought of Dropbox quite UNIX-like in a sense, do one thing, but really well.Īnd then things just kept getting worse. Synced my configs between machines, got an Android app which could preview lot's of filetypes, rarely thinking about the whole thing. So I sat down one afternoon, drafted a directory structure, subbed to Dropbox and.it worked so well. I struggled with file management for a long time - balancing accessibility from phone, highly effective programming environments, backing up large quantities of not-small photos, that stuff. Dropbox current direction just makes me sad. ![]()
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