Filip Novotny Web storage dropbox has been one of the most widespread services of its type since its inception. Although it is used by more than 300 million customers, only a small part of them opt for the paid Pro version. Now the San Francisco company is about to change that, with new improvements that will be available exclusively to paying users.
The biggest changes within the paid program fall into the shared file security compartment. Pro users can now protect sensitive data with a password or time limit. Thus, the imaginary shipment should actually arrive only at the designated addressee. And also only when the sender wishes.
Better control over shared directories will also provide an additional layer of file security. Within each of them, the account owner can now set whether the recipients should be able to edit the contents of the folder or just view it.
Dropbox Pro will also now offer the ability to remotely delete the contents of a folder with downloaded files on a lost or stolen device. If such a situation occurs, just log in to your Dropbox account in your browser and unpair your computer or mobile phone. This will delete the Dropbox folder with all files downloaded from the web storage.
The paid version of Dropbox, nicknamed Pro, comes with a lower price tag in addition to several new features. It was the higher monthly fees that kept this service one step behind the competition for a long time - both Google and Microsoft have already made their cloud services significantly cheaper in the past. And that's why Dropbox Pro is available starting this week prepay for 9,99 euros per month. For the equivalent of 275 crowns, we get 1 TB of space.
In addition to Dropbox Pro subscribers, all the mentioned news are also available as part of the company's Dropbox Business program.
Not 1TB, but 100GB
New 1 TB. It already offers me.
Condoleezza Rice and NSA thanks for the $$$ and your data :D
This has nothing to do with security, I was expecting end-to-end encryption, this does not restrict dropbox and therefore the US from accessing the data
I'd rather buy a flash drive or HDD.
Well, they did it before iCloud Drive launched, but they don't stand a chance at that price. The vast majority of people are fine with 100 GB, but want a price under $20 a year. And that's exactly what Apple will offer them. Dropbox will remain the choice for power users who don't care about money...
Nothing much. They're just catching up to the competition they've been lagging behind for some time. And some of the "security" features described here don't work as easily as they seem, while elsewhere this is a standard that is free. And here for the price of 10 euros per month? No way. This is just the nail in the coffin and giving priority and free space to the competition.
Measuring these services by the number of places they offer is like measuring processors by MHz or cameras by Mpx in the past. What is important to me about Dropbox is the API and the unrivaled number of applications that allow data to be stored in my Dropbox and not somewhere else. The only thing that comes a little closer to this is iCloud, but there it is done (so far) quite non-transparently.