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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by codesushi42 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:25PM (#9775619)
They should have sold to Apple when they had the chance. It's funny that they didn't have enough foresight to see that large players like Google would amass the infrastructure to easily out compete them. And that infrastructure came for free from Google scaling out other efforts.

Online storage is such a commodity now. They've got nowhere to go but down, unless they can offer a really innovative solution that offers more than file storage. Otherwise their interface just seems really dated now and their mobile apps are terrible.

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by pen2l on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:32PM (#9775628)
Wait, Apple made an offer to acquire them? I was not aware of that.

Anyway, I'm also surprised by the series of very bad moves of all sorts by the Dropbox crew. They're focusing on various areas these days which to my understanding just spells dead end, like being a place for photo storage (competing with Flickr), etc. They lost any good will they had built by having Rice on board, and then sticking with that decision even after seeing the bad reception. It's surprising because I thought Drew Houston et al. were very strategically smart folks who couldn't make these types of mistakes.

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by codesushi42 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:41PM (#9775655)
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-said-no-to-nine-dig...
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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by bane on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @10:34PM (#9775632)
Just think about this:

Google (within the scope of photos) has given every person unlimited photo storage. That's how much cloud storage is worth...nothing.

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by olefoo on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:15AM (#9775895)
But it's only unlimited if you allow them to manage the compression; if you want to manage the files yourself ( the "originals" ) you're constrained as to storage on both Amazon and Google.
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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by bane on Thursday June 25, 2015 @07:54AM (#9777232)
Think about this then, for a specific type of computation (image compression) Google is also saying compute resources cost nothing.
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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by j_s on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @11:35PM (#9775778)
Also worth mentioning Amazon Prime Photos here, even though it requires a Prime membership.
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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by scholia on Thursday June 25, 2015 @02:08AM (#9776228)
Amazon Prime and Flickr are both better for storing photos, and I expect imgur is as well (I've not used it for that).

I'm already far too dependent on Google to willingly give them anything I don't have to, especially when there are better alternatives.

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by scholia on Thursday June 25, 2015 @06:31AM (#9776951)
LOL for the downvote ;-)
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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by abcdefghijkl on Thursday June 25, 2015 @04:04AM (#9776520)
I saw that they're opening new offices and was interested in applying there, would you say it's a good idea to work at Dropbox or would it be too unstable?
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