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      Don’t forget, from 2014 to 2021, they had George W Bush’s Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on their board of directors.

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        As soon as I read that, years ago, I thought “Well Dropbox. That was a very poor choice.”

        I haven’t considered it since.

        “You can use it with Dropbox!” they say.

        Yeah, nah.

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          It’s a neat utility and all, or at least it was neat back when the cloud was novel. But I don’t understand how what’s basically a minor iCloud feature became a publicly traded company of gigantic size.

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    We continue to see softening demand and macro headwinds in our core business

    Maybe if you didn’t raise your prices to finance dumb investments, the demand for your core business wouldn’t falter.

    If anything I think people’s poor economy is forcing them to get rid of luxuries like Dropbox, and the way for Dropbox to stay relevant is to let prices follow the economy of their customers down.

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    Why does dropbox exist. For the same money Microsoft offers equal storage, plus office.

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      Dropbox had the first mover advantage. Onedrive lagged behind it for years. You can argue it still does.

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        OneDrive is so fucking confusing to administrator.

        The files exist on your physical drive …except it doesn’t?

        You can’t remove the files…except when it does it on its own.

        You can’t move a file without some sort of synching issue.

        You can’t fucking disable it without going into the registry!

        I legit tried it in the early days of Win10 and it was a nightmare. I literally had to reinstall Windows and disable it upfront before things worked the way I expected.

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          going to “C:\Users\user\Documents” in explorer, vs just typing in “documents”. One takes you to your documents folder, which will be empty, the other takes you to some other path from onedrive

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      One advantage of Dropbox is that it is not that integrated into Windows/office.

      I use Dropbox, albeit I have an old free account with much more storage than their 2GB base.

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        I have 20 gigs free from when they had free permanent storage upgrades by referrals. I referred a bunch of “friends” with temporary email and virtual machines since it checked it wasn’t just being in stalled on an existing machine.

        This was over a decade ago and it’s still the highest storage free tier.

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        What do you mean? Dropbox is integrated into Windows using the Cloud Files API, which handles dynamically downloading files as needed, the ability to mark files so they’re always available offline, etc.

        Or did you mean a deeper integration like how Windows shows ads for OneDrive?

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          I like that it’s a separate application. I had issues with the way OneDrive integrated with Windows/Office and conflicts with my corporate OneDrive account (this was a while ago, this may have been fixed).

          I always prefer to have a full local copy (Google Drive, which a use for specific data has been really annoying with this) without using Cloud Files API or any extra features. A literal cloud sync of specific folder, nothing else.

          I mostly use Dropbox out of habit (and because I have a grandfathered account). I’ve been meaning to switch to ProtonDrive (already have a paid account with them for email), just haven’t got to it yet.

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      For the same money Microsoft offers equal storage, plus office.

      Plus email! Same with Google (Google Workspace).

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      I always wondered this too. It was a good idea 15 years ago. But, they don’t offer enough to justify the price. Literally everyone offers cloud storage now and a million other features too.