Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
by JohnJamesRambo on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:05PM
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It’s likely you have enough money that it isn’t prohibitive to you. I think most people would find $10 a month for file syncing crazy. Why would I pay for that instead of Google Drive? It’s one more company I have to share my data with and hope they don’t lose it/get hacked. At least I can log in once with Google (or OneDrive if you are in the Microsoft ecosystem) and two factor authentication and be done with it. I don’t understand the Dropbox business model at all. Hoping people are uninformed about better alternatives? 9 billion market cap for that?
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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
by onepointsixC on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:38PM
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> Why would I pay for that instead of Google Drive?
Because of Google's abysmal customer service which is awful to the point that even googlers can't get help if something goes wrong?
The point of a cloud storage is that you want your most important files to be backed up somewhere that you trust. I don't trust to store my data with an advertising company.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
by xmprt on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:10AM
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Google Drive also "works perfectly, across any device/OS and never fails, never breaks, and is extremely fast (insanely fast)."
$120/year for privacy and customer support may be worth it to you but for the vast majority of people it's cost prohibitive.
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
by pedro2 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:14AM
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GDrive has no SmartSync for ‘regular’ users and 3rd party solutions have quirks.
* Insync adds xml suffix to files with xml contents.
* Expandrive borks file editing sometimes (happened twice - it was enough to move to Dropbox)
I still use Google Consumer Storage though, thanks to Google Photos. Can’t get rid of it, nothing better feature, simplicity and maintenance wise.