Let’s explore some Dropbox pros and cons!ĭropbox shares many similar features with other, newer cloud storage solutions. Within this competitive landscape, it can be difficult to decide which tool is best for you, with different platforms offering varying degrees of functionality. That said, there are now many competitors: the aforementioned two, Microsoft’s OneDrive, Box, Air. Fourteen years later, Dropbox is as significant as ever. Dropbox pioneered the space when it was founded in 2007 by two MIT students - iCloud wasn’t released until 2011, and Google Drive only came out in 2012. Cloud storage, popular for over a decade already, became even more important. Video conferencing software like Zoom takes the cake for biggest software success story of 2020, but other categories also thrived. Synchronization is the new name of the game. With team members unable to work in-office and spread across the globe, software tools meant to facilitate remote work thrived. This has been increasingly true for years, but the pandemic-induced work from home revolution confirmed it. It’s not a perfect fix, since someone who wants to steal the data could just open the computer up when it doesn’t have internet access, but it provides an extra layer of security.Fact: the modern workplace lives on the cloud. Users can also set view-only permissions for certain shared folders to give collaborators access to important files without giving them the ability to tamper with them.įinally, Dropbox rolled out a new remote wipe capability for Pro users that will allow people to remotely delete the Dropbox files stored on a computer that they have lost the next time it comes back online. Users can now choose to password-protect a share link, as well as set it to expire after a certain amount of time so they don’t need to worry about resetting the sharing settings when they no longer want their files accessible. In addition, the update comes with a number of security benefits, including a trio of new features for shared files and folders. Dropbox will also face fierce competition from Apple in the fall, when the company rolls out a new pricing scheme for its refreshed iCloud Drive online storage service.
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