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Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.
This part is a better UX for the majority of users.
The problem comes when there's a data leak, or when the marketing team decide to email those contacts, or some time later that could really easily be argued as "this will never happen", and may often not, but it's possible.
It's details like this that differentiate the "good" product companies from the "great" product companies, specifically because the detail of "not collecting email addresses" would never be noticed by those users, by construction.
I left dropbox when they changed the full page upsell to "dropbox business" so that I couldn't easily figure out how to skip it and get on with my work. I had a paid pro account at the time. I actually had a conversation with a product manager; I checked the yes you can contact me when I cancelled my account. They simply refused to admit that an upsell was a advertisement and that disrupting my workflow on my paid, p…
It's hard to make someone understand something when their salary (and entire reputation - given that increasing engagement/retention by X% is a big selling point on a resume) depends on not understanding it.
Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.
It's been so worry free that when I had to move house I had to read the docs again to make sure I do things right. And that's on top of me studying the project well enough the first time I set it up that I ended up contributing some patches.
P.S. There are hosted offerings for nextcloud but for a household with 2-5 users I think nextcloudpi has the best value proposition.
While they no doubt reduced their operating costs with that move, I couldn't help it feel that this meant that they were investing so many of their precious mental cycles, hiring cycles, maintenance cycles, into plumbing instead of user-centered innovation which was their original sweet spot.
What was celebrated at the time as a great example of how cloud is a big mistake for people to me is in fact the opposite and should be used in future as a good business case study.
Folks never think about the opportunity cost; they get blinded by $$$ figures which are so misleading
Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.
Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.
i switched to microsoft 1Drive a long time ago, works seamlessly on windows
[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...
Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.
There is still One Drive if we are taking about the big guys. You could also look into seedboxes.
[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...