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I thought that, but I've been tempted over to Office Home, simply because for the same cost as Dropbox, I can get a family of four sync accounts (so I've saved 75%) and effectively get Office for free for the people who want/need it.

OneDrive is a bit rougher on a couple of edge cases, but it works well enough. Well enough, at any rate, that I'm not prepared to quadruple my spend for the difference.

(On edit) The point being, not that I think that Dropbox will stand or fall on my opinion of their services, but for Joe and Jane average "I can get OneDrive and Word and Excel and Powerpoint on my Windows laptop and my Xperia phone and my iPad for the whole family same price as Dropbox on its own is a pretty compelling choice. The missing features like Linux support aren't really going to factor in for most people.



The problem with OneDrive is that it is pretty shitty on Mac (at least for me). In my experience Dropbox > Google Drive > OneDrive


Sure, but that's only a competitive advantage with, what, 10% of the market at most?




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