From the Dropbox blog:
With Project Infinite, we’re addressing a major issue our users have asked us to solve. The amount of information being created and shared has exploded, but most people still work on devices with limited storage capacity. While teams can store terabyte upon terabyte in the cloud, most individuals’ laptops can only store a small fraction of that. Getting secure access to all the team’s data usually means jumping over to a web browser, a clunky user experience at best.
Project Infinite will enable users to seamlessly and securely access all their Dropbox files from the desktop, regardless of how much space they have available on their hard drives. Everything in the company’s Dropbox that you’re given access to, whether it’s stored locally or in the cloud, will show up in Dropbox on your desktop. If it’s synced locally, you’ll see the familiar green checkmark, while everything else will have a new cloud icon.
The announcement very specifically mentions laptops and your desktop. No mention of iOS, but perhaps there’s just no sensible path there. Will be interesting to see how that plays out. As currently announced, Project Infinite is for OS X and Windows.
Take a look at the video below to see this concept in action. Note the OS X slight (at about 1:47), as the narrator focuses on Windows, then says, “Ah but graphic design, they’re still on…they always use OS Ten…It works on OS Ten too.”
Clearly a Windows bias there. I’d be surprised if the company didn’t update this video to add a more OS X and iOS spin on things. As is, Apple is merely an afterthought.
That did seem like quite the swipe at OS X, but iOS already has similar functionality. iOS Dropbox doesn’t download all files, only the ones you choose to.
I’ve been consistently impressed with DropBox, they are forgiven for this flub. They do seem to make a solid product for ‘OS Ten.’ I welcome their innovation.
Box hasn’t measured up against DropBox as much.
My thoughts exactly. You have access to all your files anyway, you just save the cache the files you want for offline use.
At $10 per terabyte per month, this is not sounding so infinite to me.
Also, it’s not a slight to Mac users. The list of folks he was making included one segment still using Window 7. And that one was quite spot-on. Not all stereotypes are meant to be criticisms. And we Mac users often invoke our creative cred as one reason Macs exist. Se let’s not get our panties in a wad because some semi-true stereotype about Mac users is invoked to point out different use cases.
Pity the poor Linux geeks who don’t get this feature, regardless of overpricing.
I imagine Dropbox is very aware of its user demographics. But I’d be surprised if a significant part of its customer base isn’t simply consumers who happen to use Macs.
“…graphic design… they’re still on… blah blah blah”
I’m sure the OS X engineers at Dropbox winced when they saw this. His tone couldn’t be more stereotypical and out of touch with reality. For a company valued in the billions this video lacks quite a bit of polish.
Dropbox probably started noticing people stopped using dropbox because it’s taking too much space. They need “project infinity” to convince people to keep their dropbox client installed on their computer.
I don’t think it’s much of an Apple slight. The product is enterprise only at this point and the enterprise is still primarily Windows.
Nice try, Dropbox.
What’s your next move? Project More-Than-Infinite?
It’s not a product.
It’s just a feature.
Infinity plus one!
You’re right it isn’t a product. I was referring to DropBox as a whole, not Project Infinite. But actually, the software is the product, but really it’s a service.
This is exactly how much OS X users should trust them.
Dropbox on iOS already allows you to browse all of your Dropbox files and they are not stored on your device. So there is no mention of iOS because this isn’t applicable to the iOS app… it already behaves like this.
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How is this a slight to Apple. OS X has the same functionality as Win 10. Why be redundant in your
Isn’t this exactly how iDisk used to work back in the day?