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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by eachro on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:36PM (#25766925)
Linux is just 2% of the desktop market. Apple and Microsoft have good enough cloud storage + sync, so Dropbox needs to be even more compellling on macOS/windows to survive.

Their Dropbox Transfer offering is a nice alternate revenue stream for them. I wonder what else they can come up with.

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by bayindirh on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:37PM (#25768291)
> Linux is just 2% of the desktop market.

However, there are concentration points of this 2% which is beneficiary to both parties.

Dropbox can target this 2% better and users of this 2% can use Dropbox to collaborate and sync their other systems which have more popular OSes.

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by sdenton4 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:57PM (#25767867)
(And like 75% of the mobile market!)
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by rodgerd on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:11PM (#25768006)
The *ix userland is nowhere in the mobile market, and Dropbox is not a kernel extension. Google could replace Linux with another kernel tomorrow and it would be irrelevant to Android users; Dropbox-for-Android is irrelevant to Dropbox-for-Linux-Desktops.
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