Dropbox was great way back then but now it seems like they are trying to compete with Microsoft Sharepoint and my Office 365 already comes with a 1TB storage plan.
Perhaps Jobs was right ... it is a feature not a product.
But they do it really well. OneDrive, Google Drive and iCloud Drive lack the polish and reliability of Dropbox for me.
All said, I stopped paying for Dropbox about 6 months back as I couldn’t convince myself paying $9.99 for something I was already getting with Office 365.
All I needed from them was like a $2.99 plan for 200GB and I would have continued to be a paying customer.
OT but every time I visit this site I wonder how such smart people got duped by their designer. It used to be a joy to visit, but now it physically hurts me just to look at it. It's ok, great even... heck sometimes crucial, to be contrarian when you're creating art. But a UI isn't supposed to be art.
May be it is just me, but there should have been a tldr summary or better title (Arash, co-founder of dropbox leaving) or first paragraph. I was reading it half scared wondering if someone died (due to the recent Corona related news).
While yes, that would have been a better title in terms of telling us what the post was about, but then you get a different tone for the post.
I think the post is first and foremost for thanking Arash for his work on Dropbox and about the partnership he had with Drew, and telling us about it comes second.
Maybe you're right, I can't say that resonates with me but I may well be in the minority. I do find it interesting though that the post you link to has this as it's first sentence:
"After six and a half years, Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving Dropbox and heading into retirement."
No ambiguities regarding the reasons for the post then.
(Also, for what it's worth, I had no idea who Arash was prior to reading this post.)
