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What happened?

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They screwed up a perfect piece of software.

More like competition, including open source solutions, has reached a point where Dropbox is becoming obsolete.

can you personally recommend any open source solutions that are reasonably plug and play?

syncthing[1] works nicely for me.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

For Windows users, SyncThing is normally a local browser app; SyncTrayZor wraps Syncthing into a more familiar SysTray app.

(Made finally ditching Dropbox a lot less daunting so I sing its praises on here when I can.)

https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor

I went to Syncthing as well and it works, but it's still no match for the DropBox of a few years ago.

I don’t understand why one would expect to be able to compete with iCloud, google drive, one drive. They have so much cash to burn.

Have you ever known Apple to “burn cash”? They have this crazy idea that products should be sold at a profit.

As in, whatever you can do, they can do better, since they are able to spend so much more.

It’s not they can do it “better”. They can do it “good enough” so that most people aren’t willing to use a smaller vendor and where the value add is not enough to have a sustainable business - see Dropbox, Spotify, Etc.

The CTO probably had a lions share in that. Not surprised how it went. :(

Stock price is down 26% in the past year. Either the CEO wants to show that serious steps are being taken to right the ship or the CTO is leaving for greener pastures. Since the article quoted the CTO as saying that he’s starting his venture career, I’m guessing it’s the former.

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