Comments on post “Dropbox Paper”
James Young
@jydesign · CD @ Theresa Neil Strategy + Design
OK, first off I'm an early adopter and (still a) huge fan of Dropbox. However, my knee-jerk reaction to this was not positive.
I've been noticing some articles that are 'down' on Dropbox (http://buff.ly/1Lcvg6h). But I hadn't given such link-bait that much credence. However, I have some real pain points on Mac with the core Dropbox syncing and file hosting/sharing capabilities. Therefore, any new feature or service, from Dropbox, that doesn't directly improve core-product kind of bums me out. It's like your actual service isn't sexy enough for you guys anymore and you are getting distracted by the squirrel!-like allure of complementary 'apps' that can have their own names and such.
For example, I would've anticipated that Dropbox might look into creating a feature improvement that was like Subversion or "Git Large File Storage" for non-developers vs trying to compete with Google Docs and Office 360. I would love to have some kind of re-imagined file checkin/lock/checkout via Dropbox in order to minimize file conflicts when team members simultaneously open something in a shared folder (I don't believe Dropbox Business offers this - but please correct me if I'm wrong). Keynote + OS X autosave can be a nightmare if my colleagues open a file I'm working on, simply to look at it.
Anyhow, I'll try to reserve ultimate judgement until Paper is actually available. BTW, that's now two apps named "Paper" (Facebook and Dropbox) further diluting 53's Paper (creative app) brand recognition.
Until then I'll be practicing my daily ritual of watching the Dropbox syncing-conduit spike to over 100% of CPU usage while my Macbook fans go a' spinning...
Respectfully yours - J.
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Nate Heagy
@nheagy · Lead Designer, Amuses.Me
@jydesign I still haven't forgiven Facebook for reusing the name, doubt I will forgive Dropbox either :P
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