I know what Dropbox is doing they’re saying that they don’t care about all these little customers who built the service.
But there are apps that use Dropbox to store settings or data, and may not be able to use iCloud Drive or another service for that. There’s Google Drive, OneDrive, etc., and I have access to both of these through a GSuite (30 GB) and Office365 (1 TB) account. There are alternatives: on the Mac and iOS, there’s iCloud Drive, but you can’t share folders. I’d happily pay, say, $20 a year for 100 GB, because I am aware that I’ve been getting this service for free for many years. The problem is that Dropbox doesn’t have a low-priced, low-GB plan. (Yes, I know, selective sync but I still don’t need that much storage.) I don’t need 1 TB, and even if I did, it wouldn’t fit on my Macs I could put that much data on an external drive connected to my iMac, but now my MacBook Pro.
I use about half that.īack around 2014-15, I took out a pro subscription with 1 TB, but there was no way I could make it worthwhile. I currently have 25 GB storage on my free account that’s the 2 GB I got initially, plus lots of bonuses for referrals, for driving customers to Dropbox. I’d be happy to pay for Dropbox, and have said so for years, but I don’t use it enough for it to be worthwhile. I don’t need the last two, but in my work I do use the others. Actually, there are more an Android phone I use for testing, and an iPad mini I use for reading occasionally. I have five devices linked to my Dropbox account: my iMac (my main computer), my MacBook Pro (my secondary computer), my iPhone, iPad, and a Mac mini server. It’s true that, for many users, this three-device limit will not be a problem, but for others it will. The problem here is the old bait and switch for years, Dropbox has promoted its free service, and now it’s imposing a limit. (There is also a 2 TB plan, and a Business plan, for companies with lots of users.) Many Dropbox users don’t use the service very much those who do, and who need a lot of storage, upgrade to the paid plan, of which there is only one: 1 TB for $10 a month. This is especially practical because many people need to work with shared folders created by, say, employers or clients, who need to share files with them. Dropbox became quasi-ubiquitous because if its free accounts anyone can sign up for a 2 GB account and use it to share files. Those who had linked more devices prior to March 2019 will be able to continue to use them, but will not be able to link any additional devices. Dropbox has announced that users of free accounts will no longer be able to link more than three devices to their accounts. How to Unlink Dropbox Devices to Obey Its New 'Free' Limits
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