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Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by GuiA »

5_minutes wrote: post #3

The “business” and “personal” dropbox combo can become a real mess. Syncing quite often fails for small files too. I hope they will be able to pay some attention to these things in their nice new building.

> The “business” and “personal” dropbox combo can become a real mess.

I had a personal Dropbox account, that I upgraded to a business one (because I wanted certain of my devices to only have access to a subset of my files, for instance when traveling). Except that breaks auto photo uploading from mobile, so I reverted back to personal. Everything seems to have reverted, except the auto photo uploading tab, which now is stuck on telling me that I need to connect a personal account.

Keep in mind that this is one of only 4 tabs in their mobile app, so you think it'd get pretty thorough debugging. It blows my mind how so many companies can blow tons of money on useless signaling things (like the recent redesign) while neglecting to test very basic functionality of their product.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by dopamean »

What do you think the per sq foot price is of something like this? A couple years ago I read that the average price for office space was in the high 60's. That would put this place at nearly 50 million dollars per year. Does that sound right/make sense? If so that's a pretty quick turn around for Kilroy.

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Post by was_boring »

disiplus wrote: post #10
linarism wrote: post #2

Good for them, I gladly pay the yearly fee for their service. Haven't had as much reliability with any other cloud storage service.

i think they are shooting themselfs in the foot, a month ago after my samsung promo expired i lost my 30gb of space. the only plan they have is 1TB for 8.25eur. my whole macbook drive is 512gb, and i dont like to waste something, so paying 1tb and using only 50 feels like im paying for all those using 1tb. so i switched to hosting owncloud on my downloadbox at home, the benefit is that i can access everything downloa…

Unless it is backed up somewhere outside of your house, it doesn't really exist. One fire takes it all out.

Re: Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history

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Post by selectodude »

kqr2 wrote: post #14

736,000 square feet is pretty sizeable when you consider that SF has a building cap of 875,000 gross square feet of office space per year: http://sf-planning.org/office-development-annual-limitation-...

Which says more about why the real estate market in San Francisco is such a disaster.

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Post by Chromozon »

disiplus wrote: post #10
linarism wrote: post #2

Good for them, I gladly pay the yearly fee for their service. Haven't had as much reliability with any other cloud storage service.

i think they are shooting themselfs in the foot, a month ago after my samsung promo expired i lost my 30gb of space. the only plan they have is 1TB for 8.25eur. my whole macbook drive is 512gb, and i dont like to waste something, so paying 1tb and using only 50 feels like im paying for all those using 1tb. so i switched to hosting owncloud on my downloadbox at home, the benefit is that i can access everything downloa…

I had the same situation, and I ended up buying the 1 TB plan. I really wish they would have an intermediate tier between 10 GB and 1 TB. I would gladly pay for 100-200 GB. I use Dropbox to back up important documents but not everything I have on my machines, so I'm still using way less than the 1 TB right now.
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