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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by aNoob7000 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:28AM (#25763140)
For me it was the lack of storage tiers. When the only options is to get 1TB or more, I think you lost a lot of users. Additionally, they should have figured out a way to share storage with a family, if the only profitable storage tiers are 1TB or more then let people share it.
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by brundolf on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:33AM (#25763219)
Meh, we're talking a single-digit increase in price to go from the previous-lowest tier to the current-lowest 2TB tier. I only use a tiny fraction of it, but it's still a good value.

The family thing makes sense - I don't have a family I would share with so it's never come up - though couldn't you just sign into the same account on multiple devices?

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by raiyu on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:34AM (#25763240)
Signing into the same account on multiple devices creates security and ownership issues, much better to be able to delegate permissions and also keep ownership clearly understood.
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by brundolf on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:54AM (#25763573)
Is that really a concern within a household? Give each person a top-level directory
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by raiyu on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:57AM (#25763634)
Wait till some siblings get pissed off at each other and start deleting important files that the other one cares about =]
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by brundolf on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:00AM (#25763702)
Guess I'm revealing my ignorance about what it's like to have kids :)
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by dharmab on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:17PM (#25766712)
I can tell you don't have any horny teenagers in your household :)
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by benhurmarcel on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:44PM (#25769027)
Well for my needs the Dropbox plan costs 10 times more than the Google or iCloud plan. Because I need 50GB, not 2000.
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by apple4ever on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:25PM (#25768167)
Its a huge jump from $0 to $12 a month!
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by jrgoff on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:02PM (#25764816)
They do now have a family plan: https://www.dropbox.com/family
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