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I would love to see Dropbox get into the Productivity market. Google and Microsoft gives everything an enterprise would need, Storage, Sync, Document collaboration, Online word, sheets etc., email etc.

Dropbox so far is a brilliant file sync and storage service. Dropbox Paper may be a start, but if they want to stay relevant, productivity is something they will have to do.

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Dropbox is also expensive for the average user. You either get 2.5G for free or pay $100/year for 1TB or even higher plan. There's nothing in between.

Google drive in comparison has a 100G plan for around $20/year, which is enough for most people. Too bad Google has no delta sync.

I used to have both Office 365 sub which comes with 1TB OneDrive and Dropbox personal but I've since unsubbed my dropbox plan as OneDrive now has smart sync baked in with the fall Windows 10 update and they only had smart sync for the team plan at the time.

I still think Dropbox has the best sync engine in this space but I feel the pricing/features is no longer competitive.

Box is trying to do something like this.

They have a challenge in that there are so many (dozens, maybe hundreds) of apps they need so they act like more of a platform for other apps.

Doing an office suite requires a lot of development time.

I think they have less reason to be concerned about their competitors than they do about their pricing. $99/year for a somewhat crippled version of Dropbox is steep.

I am not sure what you mean by crippled... nor do I have vested interest in Dropbox. However, I would be remiss to not mention 1,000GB of storage on S3 would run you $23USD. Now this is before calculating management, request and data transfer pricing.

I just did the math and now thinking I should pay for Dropbox, instead of S3.

Yes but most people don't use 1tb, which is a problem with inflexible pricing models like this. If you're using 100 gb, which is probably the more typical user, you're still paying $100 a year, which isn't competitive with other options in the market.

the thing is, many people would be happy with 100GB for a lower price and still having the option to chose betwenn plus or pro. But it's either plus or pro for 100 / 200 per year which is a bit steep.

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