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Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by latexr »

simonh wrote: post #608
roughly wrote: post #596

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> Twitter and Facebook for eg. They don’t impose a cost on the public in the way railways do either. That's an interesting take after the last couple years...

I understand what you mean, but I have a natural aversion to blaming the messenger. We're all personally responsible for what we say and do.

> but I have a natural aversion to blaming the messenger.

The messengers in question decide which messages you see and tailor their deliveries to the one which will increase your outrage because that’s what keeps you asking for more. All so they can keep slipping in a few more adverts others pay for.

These messengers aren’t neutral, thus not exempt from blame.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by pedro2 »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #658
pedro2 wrote: post #657

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Yes but it is by me :) https://forums.insynchq.com/t/extension-added-to-files-based...

It must be specific to Windows. I can't reproduce it on Linux.

wtf? Can you comment on the Insync Forums thread please?

Thank you!

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by sushid »

jimmaswell wrote: post #611
trevor-e wrote: post #409

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Yea, I'd understand the frustration if OP was paying for the service, but this reeks of entitlement. If you are a free user don't be mad when the company tries to convert you to a paid user. A better example is how pushy Apple is with upselling their iCloud plans. I opened my laptop the other day and it auto-opened the iCloud settings app with the more expensive plan pre-checked .

Dropbox makes constant notifications on your desktop about upgrading alongside emails. I'd have considered paying for them if they weren't like this but now I never will. Maybe they'd have an easier time being profitable if they didn't push away all their long term users.

Are you suggesting that Dropbox could better monetize their free tier users by trying to not monetize them?

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by kyawzazaw »

Tesl wrote: post #619
itsnot2020 wrote: post #98

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I'm very happy with Tresorit - https://tresorit.com

I loved Tresorit but it's camera upload feature didn't transfer files correctly from my wife's iPhone - it left them corrupted and unopenable with no warnings or errors whatsoever. Unfortunately because of that alone I dropped them completely. I'm using Dropbox now because I haven't found a better alternative for syncing between iPhone/Android/Windows/Linux.

what things that you need synced

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by schnable »

jwr wrote: post #436
avrionov wrote: post #299

Dropbox and Evernote, for me are two very similar companies. Startups that innovated on a great user experience and had a flawless execution in the beginning. I was an early adopter of both of them, and they worked well. Dropbox sync between different machines worked like magic. I still remember some of the nightmares my coworkers had with OneDrive in meetings when the files for the presentations were missing because…

Dropbox is only a "failure" if you require continuous growth. Let's pause for a moment and think: why do we require that? I know, markets, etc, but Dropbox could be a pretty good medium-sized business and be just fine. Well, another way to look at it is that Dropbox is a failure because instead of doing one thing right and optimizing the heck out of it, it tries to do many things, most of them badly, in the name of g…

This is what Bear did for Evernote, and it's great.

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Post by schnable »

smcleod wrote: post #597
avrionov wrote: post #299

Dropbox and Evernote, for me are two very similar companies. Startups that innovated on a great user experience and had a flawless execution in the beginning. I was an early adopter of both of them, and they worked well. Dropbox sync between different machines worked like magic. I still remember some of the nightmares my coworkers had with OneDrive in meetings when the files for the presentations were missing because…

Purely from a product perspective I think Evernote still has one big advantage over competitors - it's web clipper and related browser plug-in works almost flawlessly. I know there are other applications to save websites offline, but there aren't many that have the functionality built into your notes editor. The ones that do offer one such Bear and Notion have a vast amount of stability, performance and content / lay…

Bear web clipper has worked great for me over the past year or so. It was definitely not great before that.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by benhurmarcel »

ubermonkey wrote: post #660
benhurmarcel wrote: post #654

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The service I mentioned (Hetzner, but there are others) do all the administration for you. You get a login and password into a Nextcloud instance, that's it. No administration required. See here: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

Yikes! That's a lot more expensive for my data usage than Dropbox!

That's possible if you use more than 1 TB. Otherwise they're cheaper, quite significantly for smaller amounts.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by benhurmarcel »

pedro2 wrote: post #662
benhurmarcel wrote: post #658

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It must be specific to Windows. I can't reproduce it on Linux.

wtf? Can you comment on the Insync Forums thread please? Thank you!

Ok, I spoke too fast. It does add the extension but only if it gets modified/moved from Google Drive. If you just sync from your PC it stays as is.

That's a problem indeed.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by jimmaswell »

sushid wrote: post #663
jimmaswell wrote: post #611

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Dropbox makes constant notifications on your desktop about upgrading alongside emails. I'd have considered paying for them if they weren't like this but now I never will. Maybe they'd have an easier time being profitable if they didn't push away all their long term users.

Are you suggesting that Dropbox could better monetize their free tier users by trying to not monetize them?

There's a middle ground between aggressive nagging/spam/a sudden 3 device limit (not even at the same time, total) and no attempt to monetize.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by racl101 »

dgellow wrote: post #213
jedberg wrote: post #168

This is interesting because having layoffs at a company that should be going off like a rocket during a pandemic is odd. What is going on at Dropbox that prevented them from taking advantage of the huge shift to remote work?

For individuals Dropbox is quite expensive compared to services like OneDrive. Microsoft 365 Personal is 70$/year and gives you 1TB on OneDrive and full access to the Office offering. Dropbox for individuals is 200$/year for 3TB. And nothing else. Unless you're hoarding data or want to avoid Microsoft, the choice is simple. And I'm sure you have even cheaper services.

Yep. Certainly my contention. I don't need an expensive 5TB (tier in Canada). I need an affordable 1/2 TB to 1TB.
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