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>There is absolutely no good reason that the computers of today cannot share media seamlessly between themselves, without requiring the use or involvement of an
by jasode 9y ago
>There is absolutely no good reason that the computers of today cannot share media seamlessly between themselves, without requiring the use or involvement of an external third party
If you're talking about some sort of decentralized peer-2-peer, the average non-sysadmin non-techie user isn't going to want to leave their laptop up 24/7 as a node to share files.
The lawyers with the legal MS Word docs, and accountants with their MS Excel spreadsheets want to shut down their computer, drive home, or get on an airplane, or go to a meeting that may not have wifi connection.
If we ask users to save it to some sort of store & forward storage so their files are accessible to others (especially with others who are outside their particular company's boundaries) ... well... you end up reinventing an entity like Dropbox.
- mmjaa 9y ago>f you're talking about some sort of decentralized peer-2-peer, the average non-sysadmin non-techie user isn't going to want to leave their laptop up 24/7 as a node to share files. The trouble is, precisely this argument can be made about every single layer, upon layer, upon layer, of cruft which requires a lot of things to be in place, just to make Dropbox work. So, I'm sorry, but I don't think you've entirely thought this argument through. Dropbox should be a built-in. Why isn't it?
- killerdhmo 9y agoNot OP but: I would love it to be built in. However, neither OneDrive nor iCloud currently work with the same ease of use and seamless function as Dropbox. And Dropbox (as with Google Drive) works across OS. So, my work computer is a Mac, and my Home Computer is a Windows PC. My Phone is an iPhone. I can access all of my files, anywhere, from any of these devices.
- mmjaa 9y agoNone of this would be un-feasible with a built-in service on any of those OS's.