Thanks to Glenn Fleishman for alerting me to the fact that Dropbox has also rejiggered its Packrat unlimited version history feature. This is useful mostly for Apple users who consider their only important data to live in Dropbox otherwise you’d be better off using FileVault to protect all your data (as fully explained in Joe Kissell’s “ Take Control of FileVault”) or remotely wiping the entire device using Find My iPhone. Remote wipe enables you to delete the Dropbox folder from a lost device the next time it comes online.
Shared links gain two additional features: password protection and expiration dates, both of which give you more control over who can access a shared link. View-only permissions for shared folders is the big one that many long-time Dropbox users have wanted, so you could share a folder with a workgroup without worrying that they’d change or delete files. More compelling for those who don’t need more space are the new features that Dropbox is adding to Pro accounts (free Dropbox accounts won’t get these features): Amazon’s Cloud Drive will probably be dropping its pricing soon, given that 1 TB costs a whopping $500 per year there. 
The personal OneDrive account is normally $1.99 per month for 100 GB or $3.99 per month for 200 GB, but a current promotion on OneDrive for Business drops the 1 TB price to $2.50 per month. In comparison, Google Drive also offers 1 TB for $9.99 per month, and for those who don’t need that much space, 100 GB for $1.99 per month. Those who had 200 GB and 500 GB plans can opt to keep them (at the new quotas of 2 TB and 5 TB, respectively) or downgrade to 1 TB at the beginning of the next billing cycle. Users who had one of those plans now have ten times their previous amount of storage. Previously, Dropbox charged $9.99 per month for 100 GB, $19.99 for 200 GB, and $49.99 for 500 GB.
#1651: Dealing with leading zeroes in spreadsheet data, removing ad tracking from ckbkĭropbox may have set the standard for file sharing services, but with Google Drive and Microsoft’s OneDrive lowballing the price of storage, Dropbox has found it necessary to tweak the details on its paid Dropbox Pro accounts to compete, now offering a 1 TB tier for $9.99 per month or $99 per year. #1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage. #1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced. 1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind. #1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.
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