Dropbox Platform Aims to Eliminate the Hard Drive

[none12345]

" It may even encourage consumers to purchase the same app on another platform, knowing that they wouldn't be required to start over from scratch."

How about you know....supporting your customers instead! If you buy an application it should work on any device. You should NOT have to rebuy the application for each device you own.

I personally would never store my data 'in the cloud'. I want sole access to my data. I do not trust 'the cloud'. Now having said that i do store some data 'in the cloud' because i dont have a choice. For instance online games, they store your data. Bank sites, they store your data, etc, etc. You know all these things that have been around forever where you can access your data from any supported device any where.

But personal stuff, no. Id rather manage it myself then allow someone else to host it, and give/sell/etc my data/viewing habits/etc to marketing firms/the government/etc.

 

[Aaron Briggs]

I just dont understand why so many people are willing to give up there privacy for a little convince the ability to access stuff easier is driving this market and i hate it. Why on earth do people think its okay for a 3rd party enterprise to hold all your data?

 

[frish]

@Aaron Because it's very convenient and most people don't care about extreme privacy of their work, photos etc. Loads of people use facebook and I'd be a lot more worried about privacy there than dropbox myself. If you don't want someone potentially seeing something in particular, you can still encrypt it. If you want to share something online, you'll need to share it somehow, for me I like dropbox for the convenience but there are plenty of products out there. Obviously a lot of people here don't like the cloud. But you'd be blind to not see the potential and realise that not everyone will have your views.

 

[CosplayyyGirrrl]

Speaking of Dropbox, a good alternative thats getting abuzz right now is Copy .com. Apparently it's functions are the same as Dropbox's but it is a bit more secure because files are encrypted on your end before they are uploaded. They also have no file size limit, no badwidth limits, and you can stream your movies even in 1080p. All for the free user, wow!

Also they're giving everyone 15GB to start with free for life, 20GB with a referral. If anyone wants to start with that extra +5GB, you could use my referral code and we'll both get a bonus.

15GB +5GB = 20 GB

https/copy.com?r=jY7ddZ

Thanks guys!

 

[24oz]

I never cared much for cloud services much and this NSA stuff makes more wary.I would never store personal data online and I am glad I never got a Dropbox account

 

[marky brad]

Though dropbox is good due to its recent outages I've shifted to SyncBlaze and prefer it over dropbox for my business transactions. I find it more secure and robust compared to dropbox. http/bit.ly/11ZEikd

 

[ronch79]

Why do these bozos keep wanting to push the CLOUD?? I have my own hard drive and I want to store my files THERE. I also have a hard drive and I want to run PROGRAMS from THERE. There are many valid reasons why local storage is preferable to storing or running things from some computer out there.

Also, of course Dropbox would like to push this. They don't care how it benefits you and me. They care about their business.

 

[cats_Paw]

What are the mareting teams from all these companies doing? Or is it just that the big boss wants "A" and then everyone agrees with him?
Why do they keep pissing off consumers like this?

Are they really that dumb, or is it that Toms hardware users are so smart?
Razzb3d, nice one. Id like to actually see you have 23.000+ floppys for a single game, and then watch you install it .

Oh and Dropbox, how about people with no internet? Like... those people exist... same as people with brains.

 

[SarahAston]

Great info.
Ditching Dropbox and Google Drive for technical and security issues, I've moved on to Copy, it's better than both, it's impressive!

They give you 15GB - 20GB if you sign up via this promo link: https/copy.com?r=9IfWjn - with a further 2GB for linking to twitter, so basically you start with 22GB free space with 5GB per each further referral.

With a client for every platform (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android), the interface is clean, the program works wonderfully, very fast, supports Wifi Sync and AES256 encryption before sending and again on their servers, boasting no file-size limits, fair storage sharing, dup detection, gzip compression, full versioning (Dropbox charges) allowing undeletes and file rollbacks which can be a lifesaver.