After switching to Android one of my friend(he happens to be the most referred person on my blogs i.e. Darshan B Shetty, a proud wiproit, his company says his credentials and nothing much. I was introduced to dropbox by him, saying it’ll be useful to save one’s important things(pics and documents). I nodded blindly as I was literally on cloud nine after I bought this skicky handset.

For the people who don’t know dropbox is, it’s a Popular cloud storage and file synchronisation service.one of the efficient apps in it’s domain.

It was just another app on my handset until I became one of the approved members on dropbox account of Willie froster, One of the brains behind MRI. I’m fortunate enough to share documents with this genius who sits in New Jersey on daily basis.

Since then, my dropbox became one of proud possessions as I had access to Willie’s public document through my dropbox. Happiness didn’t long last, I got mail which said below things.

Dropbox is set to drop the Public folder from new accounts from August 1, drawing ire from app developers that rely on its service for their apps to function.Announced in an email to Dropbox-registered developers and users, the company said that as a result of a recent change to its service that allowed users to share links to files and folders from anywhere within their account, it would be dropping the Public folder from any new account.Developers were warned that if their app depended on Public folders, they would need to adapt their API calls to the service.The Dropbox email in full:We wanted to let our developers know about an upcoming change to the Public folder for all user accounts. In April, we launched the ability to share any file or folder in your Dropbox with a simple link.

This new sharing mechanism is a more generalized, scalable way to support many of the same use cases as the Public folder.After July 31, we will no longer create Public folders in any new Dropbox accounts. If your app depends on Public folders, we recommend switching to the /shares API call. Public folders in existing accounts, however, will continue to function as before.Many existing users are worried that they will lose their Public folders, but this isn’t the case. The change will only be enforced in new Dropbox accounts, meaning that people that have shared files from their Public folder will still be able to do so to some extent only(breather).

Since Dropbox launched, the service has become invaluable to businesses to help share project files and keep their clients updated. App developers have used the Public folder to store valuable files and link to them directly, serving as a cheap (in most cases free) option to see files shared across the Web.

Dropbox’s new sharing feature utilises a different link structure, sending user With the possibility that links are being shared far and wide, Dropbox is focusing on converting visitors into new users, taking back some control over its peer-to-peer service.

In order to play big on cloud computing, companies are trying to have control on content of it’s users. Not healthy move from dropbox.