I disagree[1]; I think that the entire value proposition of Dropbox is the fact that it is cross-platform and cross-device. The mainstream OSes all do have a b

I disagree[1]; I think that the entire value proposition of Dropbox is the fact that it is cross-platform and cross-device. The mainstream OSes all do have a basically working version of the same thing. 1. OS X and iOS have iCloud Drive, which didn't work for many generations (as one would expect of an Apple internet/cloud service) but now does basically work. However it does not work at all on any non-Apple platform. 2. Windows and Windows Phone have a confusing array of different versions of OneDrive, but that does basically work on Windows and Windows Phone. Some versions of OneDrive sort of work on some other platforms too, but not really. My OneDrive (which is different from my sister's version, because hmm I get mine through my work's Office 365) does not work at all on OS X. 3. Android has Google Drive, which is closer to a real Dropbox competitor in that it wants to be cross-platform. But it really sucks on OS X, and Windows — seems overly focused on mobile. Because these services are all biased to their own platforms, I still find Dropbox works better work involving different platforms and various types of devices. Now, if OS vendors would work to implement conformance with an interoperable standard for this kind of synchronization, that would be cool. But, they won't (for the foreseeable future). [1]: http://masonmark.com/why-icloud-cant-ever-be-as-good-as-dropbox/ http://masonmark.com/why-icloud-cant-ever-be-as-good-as-drop...