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0 pointsscarface747y ago0 comments

I can’t see myself paying $10/month for Dropbox when I can get Office365 for the same price with 1tb apiece for up to five users, plus office for 5 computers, and 5 iPads.

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abrookewood7y ago

There are lots of things wrong with OneDrive which is what you will be using. Off the top of my head: no delta sync; no LAN sync. End result was that every single file change will result in your the entire file being uploaded to the web and your ENTIRE team downloading it again ... Can't remember the others, but it was enough for me to continue with DropBox despite the rising cost when recently compared to OneDrive.

Sohcahtoa827y ago

We use OneDrive at work and I think it's awful.

My biggest complaint is how slow syncing is some times. I have a desktop and laptop at work and I can save something in my OneDrive folder on my desktop and it'll take over an hour for it to appear on my laptop unless I manually pause syncing and then unpause it to force a refresh from the OneDrive server.

I've never had that with Dropbox. It's been damn near instant every time.

cbcoutinho7y ago

I can't use onedrive due it's lack of a Linux client. There are thirdparty ones available, but upstream API changes have caused data corruptions so I don't trust it as my main driver anymore.

_bxg17y ago

The equivalent Dropbox plan is also 1TB. I personally don't ever use Office so for me that element of it is not a benefit.

scarface74OP7y ago

How many large businesses do either use MS Office or Google’s enterprise offerings?

Dropbox will gladly take money from consumers but the money is in the Enterprise and that’s what they are chasing.

_bxg17y ago

Right, and that's where they have a competitive disadvantage. They did launch Paper which is pretty neat, and they've done some partnering, but I could understand a business not using them for that reason.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/01/dropbox-to-add-native-g-su...

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abrookewood7y ago

Sohcahtoa827y ago

We use OneDrive at work and I think it's awful.

I've never had that with Dropbox. It's been damn near instant every time.

cbcoutinho7y ago

I can't use onedrive due it's lack of a Linux client. There are thirdparty ones available, but upstream API changes have caused data corruptions so I don't trust it as my main driver anymore.

_bxg17y ago

The equivalent Dropbox plan is also 1TB. I personally don't ever use Office so for me that element of it is not a benefit.

scarface74OP7y ago

How many large businesses do either use MS Office or Google’s enterprise offerings?

Dropbox will gladly take money from consumers but the money is in the Enterprise and that’s what they are chasing.

_bxg17y ago

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/01/dropbox-to-add-native-g-su...

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