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The New Dropbox — Enterprise software portal for team collaboration
Bring together your files, your tools, and people, with an all-new Dropbox experience, including a new desktop app.
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Chris Messina
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I'm curious where this leads... what does Dropbox want to become? Its big rebranding effort a couple years ago (Oct 2017) was so focused on currying favor with the design crowd... I wonder if that's still the target, or if Dropbox is trying to focus generically on file sharing and task management in the enterprise.
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Glad I switched from Dropbox to iCloud Drive almost 2 years ago. Works better across all my devices, isn't bloated, and is cheaper (at least in the UK) – 2TB is £6.99/mo. with iCloud vs £9.99/mo. with Dropbox Plus.
Daring Fireball: "Steve Jobs was right — the old Dropbox was a feature not a product".
I use Dropbox because it's one of the few with native support for Linux so I really didn't have a choice. Thankfully, it works well so I'm happy with it. However, recent developments are a concern. I don't think I'll be using the space saving feature where it automatically removes unused local files. With almost 1TB of files in Dropbox, that would easily be most of my files.
I don't think there's a Linux version of this new app, but, TBH, I don't think I'd want to use it anyway. For me, Dropbox is a background tool.
@muninjlm I bet they are planning to add Paper features to the new Dropbox instead of integrating. At present I don't thinnk I can switch bc it lacks critical features, like 'Things to do' and commenting on the folder descriptions.
What a strange direction to try to pivot towards. I like Dropbox because it just works was* light and minimal on resources and priced right. I just don't see a place for their new collaboration piece since most teams already have a system in place for this that connects to Dropbox... But I am not their target audience for this so I could way off on how people will receive this and use it.
Think they are increasing the Plus plan prices, and automatically including features such as Smart Sync to it.
were people really asking Dropbox to be their enterprise hub? i thought we all liked it because it was dead simple and near-100% reliable? i mean, i get what Dropbox is doing from an enterprise perspective, i guess, but my simple folder that used to sync everywhere now uses a gig of memory and costs 20% more...
@chrisdolle agreed Chris. Other softwares and brands are doing the same and its absolutely ridiculous. I use to love the adobe set of products now I need to install creative cloud to installed the different software and that alone adds like 1GB RAM usage making my computer slow down. Negative user experience and so many others talk about it and they don't seem to care.
Nice, been waiting for a Dropbox app. I love Dropbox and the UX/UI is killer across platforms. But, its still very expensive. This release reminds me a lot of Notion...
Talked to their support about doing info for clients on Paper or just new Dropbox. You can BUT only if the clients has a free account (fine) AND room on their account (there's the rub).
I love the new interface. But as a heavy Paper user, I'm disappointed not to see these two integrated. Paper files do not migrate :(