> Then came "Google Drive" and nobody turned back to Dropbox after that.

I wish it were true, but neither Google nor Apple have the most basic, brain-dead feature: "Give me a link that I can give anyone, and they can download the thing without jumping through any hoops."

They both require people receiving a file to jump through the hoop of having accounts with them in order to do this most basic action. It's the reason I'm still regrettably paying Dropbox. Anything calling itself a cloud drive should have basic feature where you can send anyone a link and they can download the file with no other requirement than an internet-connected browser.

Google Drive has this feature, right click the file > get shareable link > Anyone on the Internet with this link can view

I stand corrected! Time to cancel that dropbox subscription.

OneDrive too, for either a file or a folder, with approximately the same UI (right click and select Share). Works on desktop, mobile, and web.

I've defaulted to making s3 buckets public for that.

Admittedly, the s3 console isn't the easiest thing to navigate if you aren't used to it, but I don't really need to do it very often.

Use Cyberduck or Filezilla instead?

Filezilla isn't bad. I just already have a bunch of scripts set up for working with aws.

It sounds like the original YouSendIt product!

The Google drive sync engine is a piece of slow buggy crap. Dropbox is rock solid. No comparison.

Google Drive is a confusing mess, and still doesn’t work on linux.

Maybe not with the official tools, but it works great with rclone [1]. Which to me is far superior to any official tool but hey, to each their own.

1- https://rclone.org/

second that! rclone is an amazing piece of software! With a few simple bash scripts and rclone, my google drive serves code snippets (albeit without code highlighting) and screenshots! there are also armhf and aarch64 builds of rclone!

The UX for google drive is awful, especially on OSX.