Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by kenhwang on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:45PM (#25767734)

I think Google Photos would be a closer comparison for Carousel. I think it would've been the smart play for Dropbox to expand on that if they wanted to maintain consumer customers. Photos are kinda the only thing people willingly pay to save/backup and they're a royal pain in the ass to organize.

But then again, it's hard to compete against free for $0.10/user margins. Way easier catching a couple of big enterprise fishes.

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by ant6n on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:44PM (#25768355)

It sucks having to pay google and dropbox for storage cuz i have files and photos. Dropbox doesnt do photos well, i dont trust them for it. Dropbox wants to do photos, but doesn’t separate that from storing files, so just searches all my files for images or something. Also, it doesn’t allow searching based on image recognition.

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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by babesh on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @07:26PM (#25770048)

They canceled Carousel after Google Photos came out.

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