Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up

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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