I've developed using both. Dropbox is much more well-known overall where Box is much more well-known in the enterprise area. From the iOS developer side of things I much prefer Dropbox and here's why:<p>- Box's SDK authentication uses a modal view controller with a web view to authenticate. Its appearance is somewhat unpolished and glitchy. Dropbox redirects to the Dropbox app if installed and if not uses a modal view controller. Box used to use this method but no longer does for some reason. It's much more cumbersome to log in without it.<p>- Dropbox is path-based and all actions are based on a path. Box requires that you recursively iterate from the root to get each level's unique ID if all you have is a path.<p>- Box's SDK has had a much slower development cycle than Dropbox. There are many operations that are not yet coded.<p>- Box refreshes the login token frequently, which has a tendency to slow things down.<p>All of these make something as common as a file chooser much, much easier to implement on Dropbox.
50GB for free is near useless when you have a 100 MB or 250 MB monthly transfer limit.<p>Dropbox's desktop client is also better.<p>I'll stick with Dropbox.
Interesting... It took a few clicks to find out what Box is: <a href="https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/201207836-What-is-Box-" rel="nofollow">https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/201207836-What-is-...</a><p>I wonder, what's the incentive to use Box instead of Dropbox? The space is nice, but trust isn't so easily earned. I'm wondering why to trust Box with personal files.
DropBox, Box, GDrive are not really designed and most importantly prices to store a lot of data. If you want space then there are Chinese services that will give you up to 36TB, Mail.Ru will give you 1TB ... which is plenty. If you want peace of mind then it is probably best to use DropBox etc. for WIP stuff and something like AWS Glacier for archival storage. Plenty of space and peace of mind.
Weiyun <a href="http://www.weiyun.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.weiyun.com/index.html</a> from Tencent is offering 10TB free cloud storage. It has a Mac app that will attach a sync folder on Finder sidebar similar to Dropbox. English version of apps coming soon.
0 of 10GB bandwidth, how is the 50GB upgrade going to work? lol<p>Account type: Personal
Storage (used/total): 19.3MB / 50.0GB 0% used
Bandwidth used: 0B of 10.0GB
Max file size: 250 MB — Upload files up to 5GB
Happy to see that they are actually offering 50gb. Most services say 50gb but it's actually upto 50gb. So you need to refer atleast 5 friends etc. to get the space.
According to our review analysis, box was giving away 50gb a year ago but had a 100mb limit. Now the limit is 250mb for free users.<p><a href="https://sensortower.com/ios/us/box-inc/app/box-for-iphone-and-ipad/290853822#review-stats" rel="nofollow">https://sensortower.com/ios/us/box-inc/app/box-for-iphone-an...</a>