Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

Post by chid » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

alxlaz wrote: post #315

dgellow wrote: post #213

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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.

> Unless you're hoarding data or want to avoid Microsoft ...or have access to a licensed copy of the "real" Microsoft Office, the desktop app, which doesn't lag (that much), where all keyboard shortcuts work, drag-and-drop isn't too surprising, and you can use over a slow/metered/non-existent connection (bus, train, airplane), so you don't really care about Office 365. Or you use it for something other than Word, Exc…

Post by nihilist_t21 » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

alxlaz wrote: post #315

dgellow wrote: post #213

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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.

> Unless you're hoarding data or want to avoid Microsoft ...or have access to a licensed copy of the "real" Microsoft Office, the desktop app, which doesn't lag (that much), where all keyboard shortcuts work, drag-and-drop isn't too surprising, and you can use over a slow/metered/non-existent connection (bus, train, airplane), so you don't really care about Office 365. Or you use it for something other than Word, Exc…

Post by Smilliam » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 6:24 PM UTC

Simulacra wrote: post #295

Smilliam wrote: post #278

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The issue with this approach is that the company then leaves itself vulnerable to a big brain drain. If the bulk of those volunteers end up being your best seniors/leads who know they can just go down the street and pick up another job at comparable comp all while getting a cozy three month vacation that you're bankrolling...well, it's easy to see how you could be left in a much worse position imo.

The high performers, the people who make money for the company, are rarely the first to be let go.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

alxlaz wrote: post #315

dgellow wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Unless you're hoarding data or want to avoid Microsoft ...or have access to a licensed copy of the "real" Microsoft Office, the desktop app, which doesn't lag (that much), where all keyboard shortcuts work, drag-and-drop isn't too surprising, and you can use over a slow/metered/non-existent connection (bus, train, airplane), so you don't really care about Office 365. Or you use it for something other than Word, Exc…

Post by pyrophane » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 6:26 PM UTC

rolleiflex wrote: post #305

shmoogy wrote: post #272

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I actually just moved all my stuff from Dropbox to B2 buckets. My December bill was like $0.09

I'm interested in moving off Dropbox in the same way, and B2 sounds interesting. Is there an app comparable to Dropbox working with B2, or did you have to build that app yourself?