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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 smcleod »

schnable wrote: post #666
smcleod wrote: post #597

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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.

Does it preserve web page layout?

It badly malforms things like tables, lists, diagrams that contain multiple images etc... for me.

The Firefox plugin seems to frequently fail to communicate with bear.

It also can't seem to clip any website you're logged into, for say you have a private wiki you're logged into, you try clipping it and it ends up just clipping the authentication page.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by pedro2 »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #668
pedro2 wrote: post #662

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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.

Yup. That must have been how I triggered it -- I moved main folder around.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by benhurmarcel »

pedro2 wrote: post #682
benhurmarcel wrote: post #668

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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.

Yup. That must have been how I triggered it -- I moved main folder around.

For the record, I tried with Google Drive File Stream, and it doesn't do that. So that's on Insync, not Google Drive.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by grumple »

treis wrote: post #547
grumple wrote: post #363

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"Innovate or die" seems to ring true here.

I'm not sure I agree. A magic folder that syncs across all your devices is going to be useful for the foreseeable future. Eventually maybe Dropbox dies without real innovation but I think that fundamental concept could last for decades.

> A magic folder that syncs across all your devices is going to be useful for the foreseeable future.

This is exactly why they must innovate. Their core tech is useful, but it is also replicable; so as soon as someone has magic folder PLUS more useful features bundled together (as some already do), Dropbox fails to be as worth having as a separate service for users that prefer the bundle. Which is why they have issues at present.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by XCSme »

javchz wrote: post #582

Dropbox probably has the best client sync across platforms (no GDrive, icloud, or onedrive for linux yet) but I find their plans too much for me. I was using their free plan and used for sync custom config and bash files between OSs and distros, I would love to buy one of their plans, but 2TB it's too much for me. After their 3 devices limitation, I lost trust of investing into their plans, I would hate to pay a comp…

I agree, not only their pricing is high but I also tried to upgrade to the lowest plan to use it for my one-man company, but I couldn't do that as they don't provide a business invoice and you can't add a VAT number for their "Personal" plan. So I did actually purchase the plan than contacted support to refund me as they can't provide a proper invoice.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by XCSme »

javchz wrote: post #582

Dropbox probably has the best client sync across platforms (no GDrive, icloud, or onedrive for linux yet) but I find their plans too much for me. I was using their free plan and used for sync custom config and bash files between OSs and distros, I would love to buy one of their plans, but 2TB it's too much for me. After their 3 devices limitation, I lost trust of investing into their plans, I would hate to pay a comp…

Which self-hosted solution did you go with? I am looking to switch from Dropbox to NextCloud.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by noizejoy »

calvano915 wrote: post #638
noizejoy wrote: post #635

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That’s not dumping. This is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)

While the means may be different the goals are the same: "The objective of dumping is to increase market share in a foreign market by driving out competition and thereby create a monopoly situation where the exporter will be able to unilaterally dictate price and quality of the product".

The word “dumping” in this context is a well defined term, not a colloquial English word.

Making cheap products from cheap materials (at a presumed profit) isn’t the same as loss-making pricing schemes even if the high level motivation to beat competitors is the same.

Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

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Post by digitaltrees »

simonh wrote: post #649
fractionalhare wrote: post #620

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I don't know, I found the argument about competing railways in one town compelling. What if I as a consumer like the "dumping"? What if most of us do?

I'm not actually making that argument, I was thinking in terms of economies of scale or just that some features or services are so cheap and incidental for a huge player that they end up squashing minors almost by accident. In those cases you can make a case they are doing harm, but being alive causes harm (environmental for example). You've got to draw the line somewhere. Dumping is tricky. I am actually sympathetic…

The problem with dumping is that in the long term it will put competitors out of business, facilitating a monopoly for the surviving company which can then charge permanently higher prices and stifle any competition before it can get off the ground. So while there may be short term benefits the long term consequences are awful for consumers and reduce innovation.

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Post by qmmmur »

triceratops wrote: post #437
qmmmur wrote: post #232

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Is this sarcasm?

Sounds reasonable to me. We already have homes with outlandish smart stuff (washers and dryers, I mean really!). If you have a fridge to store your food and a closet to store your clothes, why not a personal data storage unit?

Yeah we could call them hard drives and sell them in shops.
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