Who does Dropbox compete with these days? They have pretty much the highest prices for the least amount of value. The only reason I see them mentioned here frequently is their connection with Y Combinator.
Personally, I prefer Dropbox. I found problems with One Drive. Google Drive client was always hit and miss and I could not rely on it. iCloud is not cross platform (afaik). Dropbox has worked where ever I needed it.
Dropbox is more expensive but I prefer to have my files in Dropbox (as a separation of concerns) rather than have a single tech company control every aspect of my life.
My experience with the 'average Joe' is that Dropbox is easy and it works. Yes, they might save a couple dollars switching to OneDrive but Dropbox still offer a good product. Will Dropbox survive long term? I certainly hope so. I have no affiliation, aside from being a customer.
For the extra buck-or-two per user per month - I just like the fact that it "just works" for most people and little tech support. (Although I do miss the RSS feed on events that they removed that helped me keep track of all of the "stuff" "the people" were doing with "all the files". I'm sure there was a reason - but that was actually the only feature that made me think that they and Box.com might be comparable in that area)
Of course it does. I am not sure why you think it doesn't.
Another sign of this anti-pattern is the hyper focus on the green field solution and not to think about simpler solutions (better DevOps tooling, hire C++ developers to rewrite slower lua Code etc)
For $9.99 you get all that plus 2TB storage with Google One. Dropbox has a minimum for of 3 users for their business plan, but with 1 user on G Suite for $12/mo I get unlimited storage and all the Goodies I mentioned before.
In fact, I think that drives a lot of these "what is better" debates in threads here. Some people go "Google Drive is better, because I get 2TB/month for a flat-fee that bundles the other services" (I do that plan too - I just subscribe to everything - to match the client's work flow. Where it really sucks is that I commercially subscribe to 3 (4?) commercial video conferencing systems).
I am not going to choose to save $5 when it stands in the way of me making $100. I find that thinking impoverishing, and time-wasting, and frankly stupid.
Even if I have to pay a designer $1000 to remake my slides after the content is settled for a client trying to pay me $15K, so that they can raise $2.5M, I'll gladly pay it! That doesn't seem to be the mindset here? (Or maybe I'm just coming across the people that shill for Vultr over Digital Ocean (or God-forbid - AWS!) - instead of focused on velocity of earnings. Maybe I just come across the wrong posts)
But, that's me - and I suspect I am not the majority here.
On a website that started to discuss business ideas and how to turn them into profitable endeavours, it is a bit surreal that every time someone brings commercial products out, one gets endless posts about free beer alternatives and how such software is doing a disservice to the community.
When you cost your business hundreds of $k/yr, who cares about $5-100? Thats less than the cost of the free coffee and snacks!
Not to mention that, USD 10 is a variable amount of money. Today, USD 10 is 25% more expensive than it was last year (and a couple of months ago, it was almost 50% more expensive than it was last year). And there's also the hassle of paying in a foreign currency (and not having common payment methods like boleto bancário available), and the annoying tendency of transactions from another country being blocked as suspicious by the credit card provider.