Dropbox CTO Resigns • Hacker News Board

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by WhiteOwlLion » Thu, Oct 03, 2019, 8:45 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #23

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #18

Dropbox has slowly but surely gone from a product I enjoyed and recommended to one that I actively dislike using. I find it pretty astonishing that such a mature product: - Is slow - Demolishes my MBP's battery - Has not gotten simpler to use And worst of all, it is completely out of line with what their competition are charging. They want $12.50-15/mo for their most basic plan when their competition is charging $0-1…

Steve Jobs was early, but not wrong about Dropbox being a feature and not a product. I just want a folder that syncs extremely reliably, that's it. They've gone down the corporate rabbithole and now call themselves a "smart workspace" whatever that means.

My favorite Dropbox feature is folder point in time restore. It saved my hide a few times.

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by balladeer » Fri, Oct 04, 2019, 12:55 AM UTC

alphabettsy wrote: post #107

balladeer wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> once iCloud launches file sharing As an iPhone and MacBook user I'd have happily done that iff it was useful or accessible to my friends and family who are not in the fruit company ecosystem (and that's the majority in my case). Because I really don't think Apple is going cross platform anytime soon https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204174 https://support.apple.com/kb/ph2609

You just posted a link for how to setup iCloud on Windows. I agree that support on other platforms hasn’t been great.

> To use iCloud, you first need to set it up on an iOS device, an iPadOS device or Mac

True. But, this is the first line on page and this is the line why I posted the link :)

Re: Dropbox CTO Resigns

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Post by scarface74 » Fri, Oct 04, 2019, 2:25 PM UTC

lotsofpulp wrote: post #116

scarface74 wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever known Apple to “burn cash”? They have this crazy idea that products should be sold at a profit.

As in, whatever you can do, they can do better, since they are able to spend so much more.

It’s not they can do it “better”. They can do it “good enough” so that most people aren’t willing to use a smaller vendor and where the value add is not enough to have a sustainable business - see Dropbox, Spotify, Etc.