[rikkus]

Reasons it's still in the game:

1. It works, with fewer problems than any other sync / cloud storage that I've used.

2. It has enough people using it outside of work that it's getting paying business customers (the Linux effect?)

If either of these falters (if 1 falters, 2 does too) then they'll be gone. There are plenty of competitors and some even do sync well enough that people will use them.

I'm rather upset that they've dropped Carousel, as it's probably the app my girlfriend and I use most on our phones, but I'd only leave Dropbox if they didn't fold enough of the Carousel features back into the Dropbox client - or there wasn't a third party app that could provide similar functionality using our Dropbox storage.

[isaiahg]

I agree. I actually use Dropbox, Drive, and OneDrive. I've only used OneDrive once to share some download links once. The only real reason I use Drive is because of Google Docs. For everything else I use DropBox because I trust them more. I've never ever had a problem with it. Also DropBox hasn't had major scandals and for the most part stays out of the news. When a company is basically holding your private stuff for you that's a huge plus.

[appleflaxen]

Hiring Condeleza Rice was scandalous to me, since I care about privacy.

Obviously, this is a non-issue for the general public, but it's a bit tone-deaf for "power users".

[jkmcf]

3. Integration

They were the first dominant syncing solution. Practically everything needing this feature has integrated DB. Beyond DB, the competition is a mix of Google Drive and iCloud, and maybe something else. Maybe if iOS and Android had centralized the interface to these types of features, DB would have gone away years ago, or adapted to the market.