Instead I get all kinds of "look at how much I can help you" crap when I don't want it. I liked having a small unintrusive storage module, but that is no longer offered. My problem is not that they charge, but that the service is consistently getting worse.
I suppose it can go on for as long as the investors keep piling in. We've all been benefiting from 'free' stuff funded by investors for the last 20 years. That's where the money is - and when you go public, you are all about the "quarterly goals." You don't go public without knowing that Wall Street owns you. I don't blame Dropbox going the way they have - they are less about the individual customers and more focused on teams and corporations. For nearly a decade, I stayed loyal to the service, but like Prokopov, I too felt the bloat was getting too much. Their revenues and userbase grew at an astonishing speed. The company was one of the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley, because of customers appreciated their simplicity and ease of use. It was nothing like anything I had experienced before. When I fell in love with Dropbox, it had not even launched. His sentiments reflect my feelings about Dropbox, as well. And if you are just signing up, add another five steps. Like me, he too had thought that "in the beginning, Dropbox was great, but in the last few years, they started to bloat up." He visually shows that as an existing customer, you need to jump through a dozen hoops to get Dropbox going on a new machine. How does this work? For iOS users, clicking on a shared link will give you the option to “Open in app.” Android users can choose to always directly open files within the Dropbox app.Veteran journalist Om Malik, writing on his blog: I was reading Nikita Prokopov's blog this morning and came across his very visual damnation of what is wrong with Dropbox. And if it’s a Microsoft Office file like an Excel spreadsheet or Word document, you can edit the file right from the Office apps on your device. If the file was already saved to your Dropbox, we’ll take you right to it in the app so you can do more with it - like move the file, rename it, or favorite it for offline access. Starting today, when you click on a Dropbox shared link from your mobile device, you can open the file or folder right in the Dropbox app - which means you get rich previews for documents and photos and an easy way to save the file or folder to your Dropbox account. But taking advantage of that magic starts with viewing and saving your files in Dropbox, so we’ve been working on making that process even easier, wherever you use Dropbox. When your files are in Dropbox, they become a little more magical - they’re easier to view, edit, and share, and they’re with you wherever you are.
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