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Box Refreshes Its iOS Apps, Gives Users Who Download Them 50GB Of Free Storage

50 pointsby wjover 11 years ago

17 comments

btgeekboyover 11 years ago
The 250MB/file limit on free accounts is brutal. (It used to be even smaller, something like 100MB, but they relented and increased it somewhat recently.) Even worse, the client doesn't tell you when it's not copying the file because it's too big - it pretends everything is just fine and dandy.
joelrunyonover 11 years ago
I feel like I got 50GB from Box when I signed up like 2 years ago.<p>I still haven&#x27;t use it at all. Dropbox, drive &amp; even mega seem to be more seamless :-&#x2F;
philip1209over 11 years ago
Fun fact: If you interview with recruiters at storage companies, they&#x27;ll often add free space to your personal account.
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kombineover 11 years ago
cloud.mail.ru offers free 1Tb for life if you register until 20 January. Yes the interface is in Russian(at least for the desktop app) and rough at edges, but still worth spending 5 minutes registering.<p>Edit. The interface of the Android app is available in English. Also, being an active Dropbox user, Mail.ru solution is obviously less polished and still in beta. But it is an established company in Russia(I would guess second biggest internet media holding), and you can somewhat rely on them.
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chippyover 11 years ago
Storage space is so cheap nowadays. I find it very hard to be enticed by even more free cloud storage. I doubt that offering me more and more would help.<p>I would be interested in an application that makes agreements with the ISPs that have throttling or download limits so that traffic to and from their servers don&#x27;t count.
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csmattryderover 11 years ago
I just got 50GB on Google Drive on my new Moto G, I&#x27;ll use about a tenth of that, at a push.<p>It&#x27;s at the point where giving away your product for free is no longer a large-impact sales tactic, wonder how they&#x27;ll innovate?
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izzydataover 11 years ago
Mediafire also seems to be doing 50gb as well as Mega.<p>Now they just all need desktop syncing programs with easily accessible public sharing urls and decent traffic bandwidth.
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BrownBuffaloover 11 years ago
Dear Tech Crunch staff. Please stop making your videos auto-play in IE and Chrome. Seriously ... 10 videos on one page and they ALL started up, playing. Conform to freegen standards from the W3C. I would have been ok with my IE browser, but it had the same bizzaro world experience in Chrome.
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oneeyedpigeonover 11 years ago
Shame that a) iOS only b) iOS <i>6+</i> only. I wonder what they&#x27;re doing that couldn&#x27;t be done with software barely a year old; it must be pretty mind-blowing, world-changing stuff.
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rshloover 11 years ago
I wish they&#x27;ll put some effort to make Linux client. Definitely a minus for me right now.
malditojaviover 11 years ago
A startup which core business is collect in just one place all the free storage provided as marketing growth tactic from other cloud storage startups.
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ereckersover 11 years ago
Would there be noticeable performance issues if one were to run Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box simultaneously?
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rpxover 11 years ago
Looks like Android users are out in the cold on this one. Any filesize limitations?
gpoover 11 years ago
1. Box offers WebDAV. 2. Zotero can store files in a WebDAV server.
angusterover 11 years ago
I got 50GB by connecting to my LG phone not too long ago.
teddyhover 11 years ago
For a little over $200 I can get a 50GiB USB flash drive. If I can pay more and buy one five times as large, I can get below $1 per GiB. Why would I need cloud storage for these sizes?
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eevilspockover 11 years ago
I&#x27;m sure the NSA is loving this.