New Dropbox for iOS

Re:New Dropbox for iOS by ghshephard on Friday December 14, 2012 @09:21PM (#4924384)

I don't know if I really get Dropbox for iOS. I absolutely love Dropbox the platform, have an annual subscription to a 100GB share- and I use it constantly, all day, to share files both between my various desktops/laptops, as well as for sharing files with friends.

I access dropbox from my iPhone and iPad constantly as well, but I do so from GoodReader, where I download files, organize them, read them, password secure them, etc...

I've tried out the new "Photo's" feature - but I already have 100% intelligent photo syncing between my systems with Photostream - so I stopped the camera from syncing after about 5 minutes - my photos are already in my Camera Roll + PhotoStream, and therefore in my Aperture Library. I couldn't understand how, or why, I would want to use Dropbox to sync them again.

This is one of those extraordinarily rare times where I think Apple's Photostream, with shared photostreams, and Albums, both public and shared - actually provide the "Web/Internet" services that I want.

Anybody else find a use for the iOS client for Dropbox?

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Re:New Dropbox for iOS by bjustin on Saturday December 15, 2012 @01:45AM (#4924770)

It is a natural extension of my use on computers, storing files that I may want to access while away, and passing files between my work and home computers. I use the iOS apps to view (sometimes important) PDFs and the odd plain text file. It works great.

I don't care for the photo uploading features, and I wish Dropbox (and Google+) didn't ask to enable it every few updates.

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Re:New Dropbox for iOS by aerique on Saturday December 15, 2012 @03:22AM (#4924925)

I use the iOS Dropbox client mostly for uploading & syncing pictures and videos between: iPhone, iPad, desktop PCs and laptops. Sometimes for checking files in my Dropbox folder.

Dropbox works well on all three OS I use of which Linux is my main. I don't know what iCloud and Photostream (no syncing of videos?) are like now but it didn't really work well when it was introduced and I'm taking a guess it doesn't work on Linux natively.

I guess I'm the reverse of you: I've already got photo and video syncing with Dropbox so why use Photostream? If that feature wasn't in Dropbox's client, I'd rarely use the client.

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Re:New Dropbox for iOS by abalone on Friday December 14, 2012 @09:48PM (#4924436)

I agree about native Photostream working better than Dropbox's camera upload stuff. But as for the other uses, you've already nailed it: easy access to your files. You just use a $5 app to do it, whereas Dropbox's is free. What's not to get?

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Re:New Dropbox for iOS by ghshephard on Friday December 14, 2012 @11:29PM (#4924593)

I find it hard to believe that anybody who has an iPhone, and works with documents, hasn't purchased GoodReader. It's on the top-3 of applications for people who work with documents, and the top-10 of iPhone apps in general.

But, I'll accept your premise - for the casual user of Dropbox, who doesn't ever want to buy apps for their iPhone (unusual, the vast majority of the value of an iPhone comes from it's ecosystem, but i'll run with it) - they can access their files through the iOS client.

But, really, everyone who does this seriously should have Goodreader on their iPhone.

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Re:New Dropbox for iOS by clarky07 on Saturday December 15, 2012 @12:56AM (#4924703)

Clearly you don't sell iPhone apps for a living :-) you'd be shocked how many people won't pay for apps. I've met multi-millionaires who refuse to pay for apps. Not kidding at all.

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Re:New Dropbox for iOS by msh on Saturday December 15, 2012 @02:30AM (#4924841)

Photostream is wifi only, with dropbox you Can upload over cellular.

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