Wow I haven't visited their website in a while I guess, what happened to the fun playful design? This feels aggressively enterprise.
The cheapest Dropbox subscription is meanwhile $12 and overkill for most casual users. Maybe it isn't worth it for them to charge lower amounts on a credit card?
I was bummed, but for a publicly traded company its a little hard to argue with the logic.
- OneDrive because it comes with O365.
- iCloud Drive 2TB - integration with iPhones and the family plan
- Amazon Photo Storage - free with Prime.
- Google Drive - I still don’t pay it for. But when I run out of the free storage. I will just because of the photo search.
I use all of them for photo and video backups mostly.
Because I want to use less clients, and don't want to keep track of my files and let them rot. All of the files in my cloud accounts are backed up to local storage, but Dropbox is used to store a lot of files which were on my personal workstation. The reason is, I'll have a life transition and won't have this desktop machine anymore. Hence I need these files anywhere and everywhere.
Having a lot of cloud storage is nice, but mentally keeping tack of files is not.
As a side effect, I can ruthlessly delete files and remove cruft.
I can parse the state of the files inside a directory pretty quickly with the inline icons, too.
However, I understand your woes. iCloud doesn't work as straightforward as other cloud providers, and makes its own decisions. On the other hand, I agreed with its choices so far.