You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Most businesses need to send files via sFTP for various reasons. I am not sure why Dropbox does not provide SSH as an option to upload and/or download files.
Megan wrote:..., please share how this would help you, ...
It's easy. sftp is supported on almost all platforms usable at present (much more than Dropbox supports - either software of hardware platforms). SSH (the base for sftp) is popular and confirmed secure. To be even more secure Dropbox may add auto-generated username and password to be used - not directly the accounts one - so easy some access to be granted and revoked whenever needed (similar to revoke linked device). In such a way all users would have access from devices that Dropbox doesn't need to support (support of the standard would be enough). Even though in such a way some features (specific to Dropbox) wouldn't be available, it's enough in many use cases (where just possibility for regular access to the data is enough).
In other words - support of just one standard is easier than support for uncountable number of Dropbox applications versions.
I hope this tips the "scale". 🙂