Re:Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B
by solardev on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:41AM
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Most people I know just went with their cloud provider's sync solution once everyone added one (GDrive, iCloud, Amazon photos, OneDrive, Creative Cloud, etc.)
Can't remember the last time I saw a USB key in use anymore.
The cloud stuff is convenient, but it quickly became a commoditu Dropbox is still better in some small ways (like delta syncs) but it wasn't enough I guess.
Re:Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B
by mikeyouse on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:59AM
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It's amusing to see "but it wasn't enough I guess" in relation to a profitable $10 billion company with 3,000 employees. That's a pretty good outcome!
Re:Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B
by solardev on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:14PM
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True! It's still a useful product, but the pressure to keep getting huge-r is always there I guess. I knew someone who worked there and they seemed pretty desperate for new initiatives (like the failed Paper). Most of their competitors have online storage as part of their product portfolio. I don't know of anything else major that Dropbox does...
Re:Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B
by eastbound on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:07PM
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Well, it’s relevant: Atlassian launched a paid issue tracker in 2003 when the open-source Mantis was all the rage.
There is always room for a smooth paid service compared to the rough free one. Android and Linux vs twice-more-expensive Apple.
So, indeed, a very cool replacement was SSH.
I still don’t know anyone who didn’t leave Dropbox after they jacked up the prices. A USB key is much cheaper (and reliable, at the rate at which Dropbox nukes accounts that they deem not compliant with whatever policy).