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Il crepuscolo di Dropbox

— Fonte: Krzysztof Kowalik su Unsplash.

Dropbox è ormai sinonimo di condivisione di file sul cloud (cloud storage), un servizio usato da tutti che ormai viene dato per scontato. Uno standard di fatto.

Facile da usare

Tutti i servizi concorrenti hanno copiato il suo modello d’uso facile e intuitivo: basta inserire un file nella cartella di sincronizzazione standard e il gioco è fatto, il file è…

So recently a cloud sync software ‘Cubby’ shut its services. Reason too much cost not enough demand etc.

One of the things we loved about Cubby in the world of cloud file sync was the ability to share, sync and folders files and folders from existing folder structure on your computer, not the ‘one folder’ where everything needs to be like Dropbox or Google drive.

Also Cubby made syncing easy, and syncing technically is not easy!

A bit of research has shown only the below two as alternatives:

- Syncplicity https://www.syncplicity.com/pricing/ , which has a free 10 GB personal version

and

- SugarSync which has no free version https://www.sugarsync.com/en/

Know about any others?

I’ve had the good fortune of being able to spend the majority of my career helping to build and market products with a core mission of helping people improve their productivity as it relates to communication. Netscape Communicator, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo! Mail, SugarSync and Catch – these products served slightly different purposes at different points in our internet and mobile journey but our goal was…