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

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by wj • 13 years ago

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chippy• 13 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.

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't count.

malditojavi2• 13 years ago

Indeed. Offering for free something that gets cheaper as time passes, I don't if can be considered as clever marketing or not.

gcb0• 13 years ago

not to mention you got 50g for referring a friend, or just registering a second account, so almost everyone already is at 50g

blueblob• 13 years ago

I believe that it was clever marketing when google first did it when gmail was first released. I feel like the storage is only part of the service, it's access to your files everywhere that they are really trying to sell.

BlackDeath3• 13 years ago

Knowing that most cars are bound to depreciate quickly wouldn't stop me from accepting a nice, new, free one.

rschmitty2• 13 years ago

Storage space is so cheap nowadays.

Someone tell Dropbox of this news

samolang4• 13 years ago

I pay $99 a year for >100GB. You don't think that's cheap?

slg• 13 years ago

Yeah, with storage so cheap who needs net neutrality?

BrownBuffalo• 13 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.

deadfall• 13 years ago

I've tweeted at them telling them that their home page had autoplaying videos with all sound on. What a nightmare. I stopped going to TC so much after that.

vezycash• 13 years ago

You're complaining to the wrong company.

Chrome has 'click to play' option for flash. Why can't we control video? Youtube conflict of interest maybe.

We can disable javascript, images, even audio. Why not Videos?

Screaming at webmasters to behave ethically, or app developer to not steal data is naive and idealistic.

Scream at google, mozilla, microsoft and the rest to give US control over our browser is that too much to ask in this day and age?

Or has following apple's "we know what's best for you" philosophy clouded their common sense?

The browser is to blame!

streetnigga2• 13 years ago

"You're complaining to the wrong company."

The company that embeds the videos should consider how said media is presented to it's users. It is a weird concept yes I know. Just try to contemplate it.

dangrossman2• 13 years ago

Nothing auto-plays on TechCrunch here. I tried both Chrome 32 and IE 11.

philip1209• 13 years ago

Fun fact: If you interview with recruiters at storage companies, they'll often add free space to your personal account.

rodrodrod• 13 years ago

Dropbox often recruits at my alma mater, they'll always have stacks of free 10gb/15gb space expansion cards (with some redeemable code) to hand out. Big hit with the students.

toomuchtodo7• 13 years ago

A few years back, I was supposed to have a sysadmin interview with Dropbox. The guy on the phone said, "Not sure why we're doing this, we already have someone in mind. Sorry for wasting your time. What's your email address?" As soon as I was off the phone, I had an extra 10GB of Dropbox storage for free.

I thought it was mighty classy of him for my time.

izzydata3• 13 years ago

Mediafire also seems to be doing 50gb as well as Mega.

Now they just all need desktop syncing programs with easily accessible public sharing urls and decent traffic bandwidth.

drdaeman2• 13 years ago

What they really need are TAHOE-LAFS backends, so one'd get 50+50+50 GiB on free offers and have a generous 100 GiB of fault-tolerant secure storage (or 150 GiB, if they're greedy or consider services going down is not a problem)

;)

izzydata3• 13 years ago

Personally I don't really need more storage unless it is in a really usable format. I have 10TiB in my personal computer for that.

joelrunyon• 13 years ago

I feel like I got 50GB from Box when I signed up like 2 years ago.

I still haven't use it at all. Dropbox, drive & even mega seem to be more seamless :-/

anguster• 13 years ago

I got 50GB by connecting to my LG phone not too long ago.

malditojavi2• 13 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.

oneeyedpigeon5• 13 years ago

But would you stripe or mirror? :-)

toomuchtodo7• 13 years ago

The though of psuedo-RAID6 across multiple storage providers makes me want to cry into a beer.

btgeekboy• 13 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.

csmattryder• 13 years ago

I just got 50GB on Google Drive on my new Moto G, I'll use about a tenth of that, at a push.

It's at the point where giving away your product for free is no longer a large-impact sales tactic, wonder how they'll innovate?

loceng• 13 years ago

This is merely to offer a service of equal value. I'm not sure as an individual service it's possible to innovate. It's what you build that plugs into that service that can make it more valuable, more useful.

codys• 13 years ago

I agree, though you may be underestimating the amount of space heavy users of file syncing services can consume:

For a single (1) robotics project in college we had CAD models, fundraising materials, reports, and documentation in dropbox. It's still there and consuming 3.8GB of space.

As soon as multiple projects (consecutively or in parallel) are using the same storage space, it even 50GB might get tight.

oneeyedpigeon5• 13 years ago

Shame that a) iOS only b) iOS 6+ only. I wonder what they're doing that couldn't be done with software barely a year old; it must be pretty mind-blowing, world-changing stuff.

ry0ohki• 13 years ago

You use iOS5? The adoption rate of iOS7 is already at like 80%

oneeyedpigeon5• 13 years ago

iPad1. No other option.

mahyarm• 13 years ago

Apple designs it's entire platform to basically drag developers to using the latest SDK and codebase. I can't even download the iOS 5 simulator in xcode right now. Shit starts breaking in the newer versions of things when you use the older way of doing stuff, and sometimes the decision is an exclusive or. Support %95 of the userbase using ios 7 & 6 and frankly give yourself less of a development headache or support ios 5 laggards who are less likely to pay for things as a group anyway.

oneeyedpigeon5• 13 years ago

Thanks for the info. Obviously, if it's literally a case of 'support 95% or support 5%', the choice is made for the developer. I assumed 'support 100%' was not impossible, or even particularly difficult, but I stand corrected. Although I would like to note that some developers do still support iOS5 - somehow.

kombine2• 13 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.

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.

glomph2• 13 years ago

Do you not need a russian phone number?

kombine2• 13 years ago

You could specify it as a means to restore the password, but it is not necessary. Other options include secret question, or alternative email address.

ereckers• 13 years ago

Would there be noticeable performance issues if one were to run Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box simultaneously?

arikrak• 13 years ago

What about Skydrive and SugarSync?

gpo• 13 years ago

1. Box offers WebDAV. 2. Zotero can store files in a WebDAV server.

teddyh2• 13 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?

nixarn• 13 years ago

Isn't this kinda missing the point? First of all this was free, but Box is like Dropbox, so it syncs files between computers and you can access them in your phone.

teddyh2• 13 years ago

How can I not access a flash drive in my phone? It’s in my hand. I can just plug it in. If I want to access the files from a computer, I plug it into the computer.

That’s my point. “Cloud” storage is completely unnecessary for these storage sizes, as I can just carry my personal data with me.

izzydata3• 13 years ago

You can get a 256GB flash drive for $200. A 64GB is only about $40 these days.

rpx• 13 years ago

Looks like Android users are out in the cold on this one. Any filesize limitations?

rshlo• 13 years ago

I wish they'll put some effort to make Linux client. Definitely a minus for me right now.

eevilspock• 13 years ago

I'm sure the NSA is loving this.

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

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