![]() ![]() I personally have used Dropbox since the first year it was released, and know it is the best in class, but this issue (and their awful new choice of wording for online/offline sync status) makes me sad for Dropbox and their loyal customers.A Computer for Everything: One Year of iPad ProĬaptured: at 23:36 from After years spent adapting what I learned from the Mac to bring it to iOS, what I found on the other side was a more focused, efficient way of working and communicating with people. My theory is that Apple want to see Dropboxes backend ‘best in class’ sync code so they can improve iCloud Drive syncing, which, like OneDrive and probably others, is a slow dog, compared to Dropbox. I actually have a ‘conspiracy theory’ that Dropbox can’t solve this on their own without getting Apple engineers to help them, and Apple engineers want Dropbox to provide their back of house code before Apple will help them, but Dropbox will not want to do this. But yet, they don’t have the software engineering resources to solve this. I read they have $8 billion in user fees that they are sitting on. I reminded them that Apple are about to release macOS Ventura, so there’s no point focusing on getting Dropbox to work with Monterey, there’s a whole generation of macOS that Dropbox has failed to 100% work on. I asked for financial compensation (reduced DB fees) for the period of time that our workflow and productivity and they said they would pass on my request. I just contacted support again to see if they actually passed on my screen recording to the engineers. If Sharepoint wasn't such a nightmare we'd be gone already. The longer this goes on, the more incentive there is for the rest of us to move on and leave Dropbox in the rear view. Some of us have already dropped the service entirely. We (and many others I'm sure) are sick of the delays and broken implementation. They need to FIX the software and get it current, NOW. Nor is it time for Dropbox to "put their hand up." It is absolutely unacceptable to pay 10s of thousands of dollars, every year, for software that does not work as advertised! Now is not the time for making excuses. You say we are whinging, but where I come from, we have a saying: the squeaky wheel gets the grease. How can they possibly have any excuses left at this point? This isn't some tiny mom and pop software outfit with a few thousand 's a multinational corporation valued at over $8 billion. I use all three products side by side and tbh i still have a tough job letting go of my first proper cloud sync tool Dropbox.ĭropbox has had over a year to get with the program, yet still drags its feet. If you are not happy go elsewhere.you will find the grass is not greener. The ridiculous whinging by people is frankly tedious, the product still has one of best sync in class and better to keep that bit right rather than screw it up. Most of our deployments use OD/SPOL now on 365 or Google Drive on GW. In all honesty if MSFT got the sync bit right i doubt there would be anything to see here at all. Plus yanking Python on an incremental was well a bit harsh, yeah yeah we all knew it was coming.so why not just give us a proper roadmap!Īs someone that has to manage data and IT at scale all Cloud providers have had issues MSFT screwed it up, Google Botched it and scarpered, Dropbox have held their hand up and said they are working it, Box is well Box for the big boys with big budgets and clout. It should be said again that the FileProvider Framework provided by Apple Inc ($T company)is far form complete and lacks many things that cloud providers required to help make products work the way they should. ![]()
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