I don’t see much of a need for Dropbox anymore. It costs a lot more than the alternatives ($0.10/GB/month vs $0.02/GB/month), now that Apple has announced prices for iCloud Storage that are on par with the Google Drive storage prices. Further, the Dropbox iOS app doesn’t sync for photo bursts on iOS7 (we don’t know about iOS8 yet), and Dropbox seems dedicated to bringing out new services like Carousel and Mailbox – which are services I don’t want. Finally, if Apple actually fixes Photo Stream, I won’t be using any of the features Dropbox provides other than occasionally sharing folders with other Dropbox users. I’m pretty confident that my shared folder use will fit within my free Dropbox quota.

To further compound issues, if Photo Stream actually works in iOS8, I will probably move my file sharing over to a self-hosted copy of ownCloud. No storage limits, and the files are local to my fileserver. Which can easily be backed up to CrashPlan. There is also a chance that I will be able to use iCloud Family Sharing to share purchased quota, even further driving down my monthly costs.

Of course, all of these are forward looking statements based on a product announcement yesterday. No changes will be made until after iOS8 ships and I can see if it works in practice.