On: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce

[cgearhart]

I think Box ate their lunch in the corporate sphere and they have a lot more competition in the consumer space from things like OneDrive and iCloud Drive. The only reason I still have Dropbox at all is because I don’t have a reason to pull the plug—and it wouldn’t have to be much of an excuse.

[soneil → cgearhart]

Their device limit gave me my reason to leave them. When they started haemorrhaging corporate customers, they attacked their consumer users. I can't say I find the result hugely shocking.

[shmoogy → cgearhart]

I actually just moved all my stuff from Dropbox to B2 buckets. My December bill was like $0.09

[rolleiflex → shmoogy]

I'm interested in moving off Dropbox in the same way, and B2 sounds interesting. Is there an app comparable to Dropbox working with B2, or did you have to build that app yourself?

[shmoogy → rolleiflex]

I used RClone to sync to B2. They've got an iPhone app that you can download to browse + download from the bucket, else the website itself.

There might be further reasons for it, but I mostly use it as an offsite backup that my wife could upload to -- so usability was a plus -- but not worth that kind of premium.

[pyrophane → rolleiflex]

Not the parent, but you can do this with Nextcloud. It supports using object storage as a backend, and B2 is compatible with S3.

[surajrmal → cgearhart]

I wonder if the omission is due to HN bias of disliking Google, but Google Drive has the largest market share in the segment Dropbox competes in.

[cgearhart → surajrmal]

It was not meant to be a slight. I have Google Drive, but I primarily use iCloud and I was thinking in terms of desktop OS platform rather than major tech companies or market share; ie, I use iCloud on Mac, what’s the one MS built into windows?