I'm all-in on the apple ecosystem, so while it's not perfect, iCloud storage works better. Was a shame, though.
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
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Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
#22The circle is complete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Or maybe I just click those headlines at a higher rate..
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#23Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the uninitiated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Edit: Read the comment below, it's information I should have included in the first place. It's important to note that the comment was helpful at the time, and only became a meme later.
> Most people I know e-mail files to themselves It would be nice if that still worked. My resume exists in an iCloud drive, and I spent ten minutes on my phone trying to figure out how to attach it to a gmail message before giving up. "Copying" a file isn't even a well-defined operation anymore. (Or at least "pasting" doesn't always paste it.)
Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
#25Board finally realized people can just do this themselves with FTP/SVN/rsync and curlftpfs
Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
#26And even despite enjoying their service, if Google Drive produced a Windows integration that actually worked well, I'd leave for it in a minute.
I'd never use OneDrive, but that's more out of spite at Microsoft shoving it at me than because it is bad in any way I know of clearly.
Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
#27Having just rsync'd 100s of GBs back down from B2 and not sure where to put it, and having lots and lots of business documents and video files to share with collaborators, I'm surprised how few competitors there are in the Dropbox space. With their block level syncing, Dropbox is still not really replicated in the market. I'd only take issue with their price given the volumes of data I'm dealing with. Being able to s…
Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
#28Board finally realized people can just do this themselves with FTP/SVN/rsync and curlftpfs
Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
#29Board finally realized people can just do this themselves with FTP/SVN/rsync and curlftpfs
For the uninitiated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Edit: Read the comment below, it's information I should have included in the first place. It's important to note that the comment was helpful at the time, and only became a meme later.