- cross-posted to:
- datahoarder@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- datahoarder@lemmy.ml
Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.
Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.
🤣 Kudos for being the first to lobby that particular insult 🍻
They advertised a service, people used the service and it was as advertised, the service was deemed to be unprofitable due to usage, they announced the discontinuation of the service and no longer advertise it.
I don’t see any mention of unlimited storage in any of their plansEdit: they do say “as much space as needed - Customizable” for the Enterprise plan. So that’s likely how they’re distinguishing the “legitimate business” users, to still offer a plan for clients needing more storage and probably has tiered/progressive pricing where it gets cheaper per GB/TB the more you use, but lets DropBox feel like they’ve vetted these high use clients to avoid the use cases they mentioned.https://www.dropbox.com/business/plans-comparison
https://www.dropbox.com/plans
As long as subscribers to the unlimited plan retain unlimited storage through the end of the term for which they had already paid, then DropBox is fulfilling the terms of the service they sold. And the last two paragraphs of the article seem to indicate that DropBox is indeed doing that
So I don’t think false advertising applies here.