So you prefer not being able to collaborate on a document using Google Docs? You prefer having to create 2 accounts instead of one for email and cloud storage?
Why can't Dropbox opensource its client? There seem to be various 3rd party alternatives which are open source and part of major distros. A binary-only, closed-source install from Dropbox would be my last choice.
So you need two updaters on your system instead of one. The dropbox one, and your distro's?
To answer your question, none but there are various 3rd party clients which probably integrates much better. Including with Dropbox. A FUSE file system comes to my mind as the obvious solution for this problem. Ideally you shouldn't have to change your client just because you changed your provider. Just like I am not changing my Email client or my web browser to suits my Email provider.
I agree it's interesting but it's not the same use case. There were many file transfer services similar to firefox send, such as wetransfer. But I agree I'd trust mozilla more than some random people.
Dropbox was integrated as "remote/cloud drive" with Android phones. Samsung had promotions on extra storage. A number of applications support this integration (like KeyPass). It was used as a file-sharing service, not colaboration, while FTP could be great there, it doesn't handle gracefully variants of blocked ports and NAT (and no easy interface for shared file permissions). Short: people used it and got used to it.
Well Google Drive integrates with Android phones as well. I get that you had a promotion for temporary storage, so perhaps you have more than 2GB. But it still doesn't explain why a new user would choose Dropbox today. Or why won't you switch out of Dropbox after your promo expires. Especially with the new restrictions on the number of devices, it seems they are pushing users away.
A (probably) more important reason would be that Dropbox is a single service company. Unlike Google or Microsoft they will not be able to easily corelate EVERYTHING you do with the additional file sharing/coediting activities, especially between users (as opposed to between devices of the same user).
I bet 99% of Dropbox users either don't care about that and/or also use Google and/or Microsoft services all the time.
The 0.01% of the users who care about privacy don't use any of these cloud storage solution and self-host instead.
I get that you hate Google, but other than that, I don't see the difference with the competition, even with what you explained. Are you saying Gdrive doesn'T sync well? Or that One drive doesn't allow you to share files with outsiders?
I don't know if they are good, but there are many. Which ones are any good for dropbox? If they are not better I don't see your point. Why would I want to manually download and install a dropbox client manually when I can use my distro's repository instead.
I couldn't care less about the binary download of Libreoffice or Firefox for Linux. What I care about is the quality of the package which is part of my distro.
Why would I want to download a cloud drive client from the provider's web site? Are you downloading Libreoffice and Firefox from their web sites? I hope not. I prefer using what comes with my distro.
There are third party tools, built-in to my distro, which allows syncing with various cloud drives. If the dropbox support in these tools is better, than it might be a reason to use it. Otherwise...
Well I wouldn't download Google Drive from Google's web site just like I wouldn't get Chrome from their web site. It's much better to use whatever comes with your distro.
9GB is still less than Google's 15 GB but Linux support can be a point. Although there are third party tools which work quite well. Google drive support is built-in to Gnome since 3.18, and there is a KDE KIO plugin too as well a fuse implementations.
I understand it was one of the first of its kind (certainly not bringing any new feature to us being used to having our own FTP server for years). But why would someone use dropbox today? If I choose Google, I get the integration with Email and Google Docs/Sheets which allow easy editing of documents by multiple different people, and pictures get hosted for free on google photos. And the basic storage of 15 GB is much more than dropbox 2GB. If I choose Microsoft, I get the integration with Windows, office 365, and the 5TB plan cost less than dropbox' 2TB.
Dropbox doesn't integrate well with anything, so it's one more account to manage, plus the pricing isn't very interesting.
What's the advantage of Dropbox? Why are people still using it?
they charge $99/year to Netflix. It's more than enough to cover the hosting and bandwidth of their 100 MB (or so, I haven't checked) application. They are free not to run these promotions if they can't afford it.
But more importantly, their store is what is allowing them to sell their iPhones for such a high profit margin. They need the developers. The developers would be glad not having to support iOS, there would be less fragmentation in the mobile application world if everybody ran Android.
Of course there is. That's why they sell their iPhones with such a high profit margin. But anyways, the cost of running the App Store is very low compared to the profif they make out of it.
Apple doesn't keep 30%, they have to pay credit card fees, carry the cost of gift cards that stores pay less than 100% face value for, and so on. They host your app on the store, and they supply all the in app purchases.
Although I agree the feer of nuclear is often irrational, at least you have the choice of not flying. Even if you chose not to use nuclear electricity (say, you get only your own off grid solar panels), you will still be affected by a nuclear plant meltdown.
Now, of course an airplane can fall on you while you are on the ground, but this is highly unlikely.
I don't intrinsically mind my Netflix bill going up another buck or two a month; that's about in line with inflation when they started doing the streaming thing.
It has increased much faster than inflation, unless we are talking about Venezuela.
What I mean is that those selling these unlock codes to me for $5-10 (I even paid $3 once) would probably be willing to give a substantial discount if I were purchasing 1000 of them at the same time.
The Samsung Galaxy S could be unlocked by software (no need to purchase a code). My understanding is that the fee goes 100% towards labor/profit, there is no "cost" in getting an unlock code.
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So you prefer not being able to collaborate on a document using Google Docs? You prefer having to create 2 accounts instead of one for email and cloud storage?
Why can't Dropbox opensource its client?
There seem to be various 3rd party alternatives which are open source and part of major distros. A binary-only, closed-source install from Dropbox would be my last choice.
So you need two updaters on your system instead of one. The dropbox one, and your distro's?
To answer your question, none but there are various 3rd party clients which probably integrates much better. Including with Dropbox. A FUSE file system comes to my mind as the obvious solution for this problem. Ideally you shouldn't have to change your client just because you changed your provider. Just like I am not changing my Email client or my web browser to suits my Email provider.
I agree it's interesting but it's not the same use case.
There were many file transfer services similar to firefox send, such as wetransfer. But I agree I'd trust mozilla more than some random people.
Dropbox was integrated as "remote/cloud drive" with Android phones. Samsung had promotions on extra storage. A number of applications support this integration (like KeyPass). It was used as a file-sharing service, not colaboration, while FTP could be great there, it doesn't handle gracefully variants of blocked ports and NAT (and no easy interface for shared file permissions). Short: people used it and got used to it.
Well Google Drive integrates with Android phones as well. I get that you had a promotion for temporary storage, so perhaps you have more than 2GB. But it still doesn't explain why a new user would choose Dropbox today. Or why won't you switch out of Dropbox after your promo expires.
Especially with the new restrictions on the number of devices, it seems they are pushing users away.
A (probably) more important reason would be that Dropbox is a single service company. Unlike Google or Microsoft they will not be able to easily corelate EVERYTHING you do with the additional file sharing/coediting activities, especially between users (as opposed to between devices of the same user).
I bet 99% of Dropbox users either don't care about that and/or also use Google and/or Microsoft services all the time.
The 0.01% of the users who care about privacy don't use any of these cloud storage solution and self-host instead.
so you actually like downloading a binary and managing updates by yourself instead of using a client that comes with your distro?
I get that you hate Google, but other than that, I don't see the difference with the competition, even with what you explained. Are you saying Gdrive doesn'T sync well? Or that One drive doesn't allow you to share files with outsiders?
I don't know if they are good, but there are many. Which ones are any good for dropbox? If they are not better I don't see your point.
Why would I want to manually download and install a dropbox client manually when I can use my distro's repository instead.
I couldn't care less about the binary download of Libreoffice or Firefox for Linux. What I care about is the quality of the package which is part of my distro.
Why would I want to download a cloud drive client from the provider's web site?
Are you downloading Libreoffice and Firefox from their web sites? I hope not. I prefer using what comes with my distro.
There are third party tools, built-in to my distro, which allows syncing with various cloud drives. If the dropbox support in these tools is better, than it might be a reason to use it. Otherwise...
because they support only 2 distros
and you are using the Drop box client from their web site or some tool built-in to your distro?
Well I wouldn't download Google Drive from Google's web site just like I wouldn't get Chrome from their web site. It's much better to use whatever comes with your distro.
9GB is still less than Google's 15 GB but Linux support can be a point. Although there are third party tools which work quite well. Google drive support is built-in to Gnome since 3.18, and there is a KDE KIO plugin too as well a fuse implementations.
Is there any competitor which doesn't support any file type?
I understand it was one of the first of its kind (certainly not bringing any new feature to us being used to having our own FTP server for years). But why would someone use dropbox today?
If I choose Google, I get the integration with Email and Google Docs/Sheets which allow easy editing of documents by multiple different people, and pictures get hosted for free on google photos. And the basic storage of 15 GB is much more than dropbox 2GB.
If I choose Microsoft, I get the integration with Windows, office 365, and the 5TB plan cost less than dropbox' 2TB.
Dropbox doesn't integrate well with anything, so it's one more account to manage, plus the pricing isn't very interesting.
What's the advantage of Dropbox? Why are people still using it?
they charge $99/year to Netflix. It's more than enough to cover the hosting and bandwidth of their 100 MB (or so, I haven't checked) application.
They are free not to run these promotions if they can't afford it.
But more importantly, their store is what is allowing them to sell their iPhones for such a high profit margin. They need the developers. The developers would be glad not having to support iOS, there would be less fragmentation in the mobile application world if everybody ran Android.
Of course there is. That's why they sell their iPhones with such a high profit margin.
But anyways, the cost of running the App Store is very low compared to the profif they make out of it.
Apple doesn't keep 30%, they have to pay credit card fees, carry the cost of gift cards that stores pay less than 100% face value for, and so on. They host your app on the store, and they supply all the in app purchases.
So, Apple is keeping 95% of that 30%, at least.
Although I agree the feer of nuclear is often irrational, at least you have the choice of not flying. Even if you chose not to use nuclear electricity (say, you get only your own off grid solar panels), you will still be affected by a nuclear plant meltdown.
Now, of course an airplane can fall on you while you are on the ground, but this is highly unlikely.
I don't intrinsically mind my Netflix bill going up another buck or two a month; that's about in line with inflation when they started doing the streaming thing.
It has increased much faster than inflation, unless we are talking about Venezuela.
They couldn't charge as much for the 4 and 2 streams plans if people were not able to use them with different IP addresses at the same time.
Just like with cable, most of the money doesn't go towards content, but distribution.
from what I understand, this is a private project with no relation with the state of Israel
From what I understand this time there is only one 5G, and is it confusingly called "5G NR".
The solution is to stop talking about *G, and instead use the real name, such as LTE, HSPA, EVDO or this time "5G NR"
What I mean is that those selling these unlock codes to me for $5-10 (I even paid $3 once) would probably be willing to give a substantial discount if I were purchasing 1000 of them at the same time.
The Samsung Galaxy S could be unlocked by software (no need to purchase a code). My understanding is that the fee goes 100% towards labor/profit, there is no "cost" in getting an unlock code.
Unlock codes can be purchased for $5-10 online, probably less in bulk. I fail to see how this we prevent a thief from stealing $1000 phones.