I let out another sigh of despair when I heard this. It feels like Dropbox is moving further away from my use-case and into media wonderland.
I use Dropbox as a serious tool for synching and sharing files between my own computers, and with quite a number of other people and companies to do the same. My Dropbox work files are over 50gb. I'm willing to pay for this, and of course do so.
My photos these days do come from multiple sources. However with 11 years of digital pictures, 20+ mb per picture from the latest camera (and thousands of shots) and with a new Go Pro Hero HD in the house, the amount of data storge required dwarfs the capability of Dropbox and my capped Internet connection. The 500gb plan, meanwhile, is $500 per year. That's a lot of money but also insufficient space for photos. I also don't really want to share that many of them, and if I do, then they go straight to the sharing site de jour.
So I see Dropbox as a professional tool for work files, but an overpriced amateur tool for pictures. The app and website seem to keep pushing me to turn on photos, and I wish they would stop.
But yes, Snapjoy does look nice, and if priced correctly could be a tool of choice. Just play nice with iPhoto, Lightroom and Aperture.
with specialized services on the Internet for just about any kind of data, it makes less sense to use general purpose tool like Dropbox.
Not to mention that cloud storage is becoming core feature of many operating systems. If Dropbox doesn't reinvent itself, it could easily face the fate of Netscape.
So what I'm thinking is that Dropbox will keep building/buying these specific-purpose services which will all work on top of your dropbox account (similar how Facebook built photo-sharing and other features on top of their social network). This is basically the only way for them to stay relevant since pure cloud storage is at this point commoditized and there is zero lock-in.
I use Dropbox as a serious tool for synching and sharing files between my own computers, and with quite a number of other people and companies to do the same. My Dropbox work files are over 50gb. I'm willing to pay for this, and of course do so.
My photos these days do come from multiple sources. However with 11 years of digital pictures, 20+ mb per picture from the latest camera (and thousands of shots) and with a new Go Pro Hero HD in the house, the amount of data storge required dwarfs the capability of Dropbox and my capped Internet connection. The 500gb plan, meanwhile, is $500 per year. That's a lot of money but also insufficient space for photos. I also don't really want to share that many of them, and if I do, then they go straight to the sharing site de jour.
So I see Dropbox as a professional tool for work files, but an overpriced amateur tool for pictures. The app and website seem to keep pushing me to turn on photos, and I wish they would stop.
But yes, Snapjoy does look nice, and if priced correctly could be a tool of choice. Just play nice with iPhoto, Lightroom and Aperture.