![]() If they keep making the desktop software more and more annoying, it's a good reason to go find something else. Usually a service will win out in that regard despite recent high profile intrusions. The trade off in security is questionable in regards to being hacked on a service versus your own server, which you have to make sure and patch and keep up to date. There is a safety advantage in the files being mirrored at a remote location however, in terms of backup. Now that I have reliable synchronous gigabit fiber at home, there is no speed advantage to hosting at a data center. It's still fine for that though I'm considering hosting my own when I upgrade my RAID array to a NAS unit. ![]() I pay for the DropBox plus tier and I use it quite a lot to access files between my desktop, laptop and phone. Perhaps that market segment just isn't glamorous and sexy anymore and now everyone's doing it, so Dropbox faces a crowded field full of built in monopolies from OS makers. A lot of people here seem to share the same opinion, but we would be in the category of 'power users'. All I want is seamless file sync in windows explorer. The application has progressively tried to lead you more and more into using their own tool set which I have no interest in. Second is their own 'improvements' which have made the product worse for people who just want file syncing and sharing and nothing else. It's 'easy' for casual users to just use what's already there. Number one is Microsoft's now tight integration of its OneDrive services with windows 10, plus apple's iCloud for that small market share. There's a couple of things they're fighting uphill against. ![]() In pandemic times, you'd think they'd be doing well along aside all other remote work tools. Trying to figure out what the major motive force behind this downturn is.
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