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Re:Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Li... by encryptluks2 on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:38AM (#30329695)
You act like Dropbox is successful when they are not. A company paying other companies to advertise and push their products and burning through cash to appear successful is not success.
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Re:Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Li... by tehbeard on Monday February 14, 2022 @05:55AM (#30330546)
Dropbox was successful.

Its current financial state is more a case of bigger vendors bundling a good enough alternative with their products AND dropbox not adding much beyond "easy to use"; than HN insight of "lol just rsync/bash/perl instead" being right all along.

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Re:Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Li... by gjvc on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:46AM (#30329748)
https://dropbox.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-detai...

They appear to be in the black.

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Re:Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Li... by encryptluks2 on Monday February 14, 2022 @04:11AM (#30329906)
Nothing about that indicates that they are making more than they spend. Look at their assets vs liabilities. Their negative keeps increasing.
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Re:Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Li... by gzer0 on Monday February 14, 2022 @04:31AM (#30330047)
The liabilities increased significantly only because Dropbox (as with nearly every other company in the United States) wanted to take advantage of the 0% interest rates that the federal reserve has kept.

  1,369.3 (bln) Convertible senior notes, net, non-current
Who wouldn't want to borrow $1.3 billion USD interest free or close to it? We need to take a close look and try to understand these numbers instead of just seeing "negative" = "bad"; more often than not it much more nuanced than that.
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Re:Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Li... by encryptluks2 on Monday February 14, 2022 @04:42AM (#30330105)
Sounds like a terrible idea right now. I think they are only popular here because of their association with YC. I honestly find Dropbox to be terrible and overpriced.
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Re:Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Li... by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:04PM (#30336625)
For simply keeping files synced between two computers, I thought Dropbox was the best.

Microsoft OneDrive is fuckin' awful in how long it takes for a file on one system to be synced to another, even when both systems are online at the same time. It also has a habit of completely pausing syncing entirely if it reaches a file it can't read (such as a lock file).

Google Drive works well, but I find its desktop client to be resource-heavy, especially on startup. I like its integration with my Android, though.

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