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I can't upload files to iCloud from iOS, but I can to Dropbox. Why is that? I literally need to email them to myself then save them into iCloud from there. Every other cloud storage service (including Dropbox and OneDrive, and I have used both) allow you to upload from the share sheet in iOS. Why can't Apple?
Very likely because Apple thinks that something like iCloud Photo Library is a better way to have access to all your images on all your devices than copying images into folders inside the Dropbox folder. That doesn't work for all kind of files (yet) and Apple hasn't figured out how to solve this problem for other kind of files but it thinks there should be a better solution than Dropbox and it is still searching for that solution. For the time being it thus asks us to live with the imperfection of Dropbox.
 
That's terrible news. I've been using Mailbox as my main client for all my devices including my Mac, iPad and iPhone. Over time I completely ditched Apple's Mail.app assuming that Mailbox would be a reliable, sustainable mail client for all my devices. Now they're shutting down the sevice? That's a big dissappoint to me. Right now I can only come up with Microsoft's Outlook app as an alternative, though it lacks a standalone Mac app. Any better suggestions?
That's always the problem: Should we optimise our behaviour and tool selection to get the best tool or the tool with the lowest risks of disruptive changes?
 
Man, I really dug Carousel's UI for photo storage. The timeline feature? Stellar. Amazon's photo storage/organization system is pretty good too, but Carousel was always my go-to. Flickr: meh. All three beat the tar out of iCloud photo storage though.

It looks like Mailbox will be missed by many more than Carousel will, but Carousel did have its fans. Are there any suggested replacement alternatives from the hivemind?

Wondering the same. Carousel was awesome for collecting photos from my SLR/Lightroom and our fleet of iPhones into a single repository. Timeline view was fantastic, and the progress indicators for uploads were perfect.

I'm sure the other cloud drives are giving them a run for their money, but the reason I moved away from Apple's Photostream (before the Photos switch) was that you get no progress indicator. You have no idea if stuff is happening in the background, and if you have limited upstream bandwidth there was no way to pause uploads. And given I don't use Photos, the presents a greater complication.

Dropbox wasn't clear what features are being eliminated and what features are making it back into the Dropbox app. Still, I don't see much point in paying for Pro if the interface for picture uploads is poor (which it currently is in the stock app).

Any alternative suggestions for a nice, reliable photo upload service that shows status, can be paused, sorts by timeline, and works on iPhones/Macs?
 
Sad news! I can't say that it comes a surprise though. The beta version for Mac has been a joke all along and the communication has been non-existent for the last couple of months.

Now I'm on the lookout for an alternative on both iOS and OS X. Darrrrrn.

You should check out Airmail. The only function it lacks for me is the later feature. But I suppose it's unnecessary. It's only available on Mac OS X right now, but is due an IOS version.
 
I never understood how Mailbox could exist while iOS already has Mail.app.
Guess others agreed with me, so now Mailbox is going bye bye! :rolleyes:
 
I never understood how Mailbox could exist while iOS already has Mail.app.
Guess others agreed with me, so now Mailbox is going bye bye! :rolleyes:
Plenty of other email clients still exist, which makes that reasoning not all that applicable.
 
...Their refusal to add tiers between free 2GB and $10/month of 1TB has always been a bad decision IMO. I would have paid for something in the middle.

Exactly my thought. They're trying the Apple tactic of up-selling you from the poor value option to the good value option, but without actually offering a poor value proposition.

You and I both would pay a dollar a month for 100 GB, and that's exactly their problem. Most who opt for the 1 TB Tier would likely be satisfied with 100 GB. They want to maintain the 'premium' appearance of their service.

What I think they should do is offer a "20 cents for 10 GB" option. I Keep hovering at the limit of my free Dropbox account and am too lazy to maximise it with the various "refer a friend schemes" in which I may or may not refer my alt email account :p

It's a rigmarole, but I'm nowhere near committing myself to $120 a year for cloud storage.
 
I never understood how Mailbox could exist while iOS already has Mail.app.
Guess others agreed with me, so now Mailbox is going bye bye! :rolleyes:
It offered something novel which no other email app was doing at that time - an intuitive manner of quickly triaging your email.

Short swipe to archive an email, long swipe to delete it, swipe left to quick chuck it in a folder. It made me realise just how cumbersome other mail apps had been doing it all along.

I also credit Mailbox with changing the way I manage my inbox. Before, I just let it all accumulate in my inbox. Now, I dutifully manage it to keep my inbox under 10 emails as much as possible.

The stock mail app for iOS gets the job done, but that's pretty much it. With Mailbox gone, I will likely just move on to another app (looking at Outlook now), but I doubt I will ever go back.

You're definitely right but Dropbox is lacking a true definitive product right now, is what has people concerned for them. The larger companies who routinely buy and drop products have more diversified revenue streams than Dropbox.

Most people seem to agree that Dropbox still provides the best cloud service, which might be true, but I myself have already moved over to iCloud because it has the integrations I want/need and costs $0.99 for more than enough space.

What happens to Dropbox when Google's, Apple's and Microsoft's services catch up, in more people's minds?
Isn't this a little like how Apple does business? The Apple ecosystem exists to keep people entrenched, so people will continue using (and buying) their hardware.

Same with Dropbox. Back then, Mailbox allowed users to attach files from dropbox, which iOS would add only last year. My take was that Dropbox was using all these apps to give people a legitimate reason to store their files in dropbox, thereby incentivising them to upgrade.

I guess there was no direct correlation between people using their various apps and an uptake in dropbox subscriptions.
 
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I've been using Dropbox from time to time since it started and never heard of that till now so makes sense
 
If Apple/Google/Microsoft/Amazon could come even close to how stable Dropbox has been for me, they wouldn't get my $99/year... I've tried them ALL, and none were ever as fast, stable, and "just worked." Every time I think I can switch, I end up not making the switch. You know the service is good when you don't even know it's there. It's just there. I was hoping iCloud Drive would be the ticket, but that's a joke...
 
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If Apple/Google/Microsoft/Amazon could come even close to how stable Dropbox has been for me, they wouldn't get my $99/year... I've tried them ALL, and none were ever as fast, stable, and "just worked." Every time I think I can switch, I end up not making the switch. You know the service is good when you don't even know it's there. It's just there. I was hoping iCloud Drive would be the ticket, but that's a joke...
This is part of the issue for me as well. I had endless problems with Photostream, and from my usage so far, iCloud Drive isn't much better. Part of that is how opaque the process is: you have know idea if and when a sync is happening. That transparency is hugely appreciated when you have limited upstream bandwidth.

But if Dropbox is suddenly bad for photos, my main use case, then I'll have no choice but to go somewhere else.

The worst part is they announced they're removing Carousel and putting some of the features in the Dropbox app, but didn't even venture a guess as to which features would make the cut.
 
Their refusal to add tiers between free 2GB and $10/month of 1TB has always been a bad decision IMO. I would have paid for something in the middle.

Tell me about it. I'm using 4.4% of over 1TB and paying $99/year. I mean, I only need 100 GB account and I'd be all set for years to come. I'm paying about $0.20 per GB per month... forever. They won't budge from the $9.99/mo price point. Next, they'll give me 1 PB for.... $9.99/mo. I just want 100 GB for like $3.99/mo please.

Part of that is how opaque the process is: you have know idea if and when a sync is happening. That transparency is hugely appreciated when you have limited upstream bandwidth.

Right? How hard would it be for Apple to add some sync badges to the files/folders so we know what exactly is syncing? I mean I didn't even think that *wouldn't* happen when I first heard about iCloud Drive. Just stupid.

And why put stuff in there we don't want, like app folders? Just give me a SINGLE top-level folder, like Dropbox, and just let me put EXACTLY what I want in there. I DO NOT want Apple putting anything in there I don't tell them to. I just want.... a Dropbox folder. Sighs. $99/year for the foreseeable future I guess.
 
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I don't blame them. I don't think we're ever going to have a consumer photo storage service that doesn't go under. Professional photographers obviously benefit from this stuff, but the rest of us just end up using these options as easy backups, and none of these guys want to be your backup service.

Adobe recently discontinued Revel, and Microsoft no longer gives you the extra space for automatic camera roll uploads either.

The tech in our devices have changed. A five minute video you take now is easily 2 GB on the new iPhone 6S models. The last video I exported out of iMovie was 24 GB (not from my phone) and took at least five hours to export - Which is why I believe Apple no longer really pays attention to iMovie, it's just not fun anymore.

It would be easily enough to get people to get on 1TB plans, but what's the point in hosting files that most people will rarely look at? Especially when these are services that can only grow so much, the average person doesn't want this stuff.

Mailbox was fine, but GTD is a niche. For me, it highlighted how much junk mail I actually got, and it got me to deal with it by spending lots and lots of time unsubscribing, but after that, I'd rather just pin stuff at the top of the inbox rather than snooze it for later. I really like Spark because of that.
 
Carousel was a good idea at some point, but then the dropbox app itself provides plenty of user friendly interface to navigate around and stuff. Plus I don't like the idea of another app where I have to classify/tag photos.
 
Carousel was a good idea at some point, but then the dropbox app itself provides plenty of user friendly interface to navigate around and stuff. Plus I don't like the idea of another app where I have to classify/tag photos.
If they just put some of the Carousel features into the Dropbox app that'd be one thing, but it doesn't sound like that's the case. The photo interface in the Dropbox app is currently much worse than the Carousel app. The teeny tiny scroll bubble is certainly less user friendly than Carousel's timeline.
 
If they just put some of the Carousel features into the Dropbox app that'd be one thing, but it doesn't sound like that's the case. The photo interface in the Dropbox app is currently much worse than the Carousel app. The teeny tiny scroll bubble is certainly less user friendly than Carousel's timeline.
Based on the article and Dropbox's statements it seems like that's the kind of thing they are planning on doing.
 
Based on the article and Dropbox's statements it seems like that's the kind of thing they are planning on doing.
There's actually a FAQ that specifically mentions some features that are making the transition, but Timeline isn't among them. We already know that Flashback and Albums are definitively gone. We know the automatic upload stays (it never left, really, and worked in both apps).

And it appears that the Carousel app that's supposed to carry us through until the March migration of features into the Dropbox app now carries a large yellow banner advertising the coming closure that you can't close or dismiss. Nice. :-/
 
Mailbox...... YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!!!!

Will never forgive Dropbox for this. I understand it's all a business and not all business decisions turn out for the best, but that doesn't mean I have to like it, or continue using Dropbox.

Which is rather sad. There's nothing wrong with Dropbox itself, but I'd take a working, continuously updated Mailbox app over Dropbox any day.
 
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