Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff

Post by oblio » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 11:42 AM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #246

Aeolun wrote: post #193

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> look at Facebook lighting almost $40 billion with their Metaverse product That’s only because it failed (and the jury is still out on that). If it works they’ll conquer an entirely new market right from the start. Certainly a much better long term strategy than hoping they can keep up their advertising revenue.

It won't! That's the most galling aspect of this gigantic waste of money. That you're calling it a "new market" is precisely the problem --- when you've sunk this many billions into something, you can't wait that long before needing to make that money back. The "metaverse" is ironically set up to be Facebook's walled garden. It has no other use, it cannot be repurposed or made modular in any way. It's not a standalon…

Post by great_psy » Fri, May 05, 2023, 9:39 PM UTC

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Shouldn’t those prices be affected by moores law ? I think I remember the tier prices being roughly the same since the service came out. I get that salaries went up which adds to price, but over time it feels like storage price should go towards zero.

This comes up all the time regarding Dropbox, why can't you pay less for a less-storage tier? The answer is you're not really paying for the storage. You're paying for the servicing. The application with its network connectivity and data transfer, plus the overhead costs of billing and support when necessary. The proposition may look like "$100 for 10 TB", but that's not a ratio that you can halve or whatever. It's $…