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> Windows by default has cloud sync on Mac and iOS and Linux and Android? > macOS does as well. On Windows and Linux and Android?

• lostmsu 7y ago
  If you install OneDrive, you can sync Android photos.
• deleted 7y ago
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• chipotle_coyote 7y ago
  Not everyone needs any-platform syncing; you only need a solution that covers the devices you actually have. For instance, the only thing I really need Dropbox for at this point is one shared folder with friends who use both Mac and Windows (which could likely be handled by Google Drive, and might even be able to be handled by iCloud Drive by the end of the year) -- and Scrivener, because its developer apparently can't figure out how to make syncing between Mac and iOS work reliably on anything else. (One can argue he hasn't really figured out how to make it work reliably on Dropbox, actually, but that's a different thread.) There may be some people for whom Dropbox will always remain the best solution, to be sure, but it feels like Dropbox is going out of their way to reduce that set of people in favor of extracting more money from those that remain.
  • braythwayt 7y ago
    There may be some people for whom Dropbox will always remain the best solution, to be sure, but it feels like Dropbox is going out of their way to reduce that set of people in favor of extracting more money from those that remain. For many companies, that is the terminal phase of their existence: They are driven to extract more and more revenue from a set of shrinking customers, many of whom are hostage to the company's product and have insanely high switching costs. The end-game for such companies is when they stop as they almost entirely cease selling the product and transform into a company with licensing and service revenues. It isn't always terminal, but it requires an almost superhuman effort to jolt such a company out of its trajectory. Apple was in that phase in the 1990s under Gil Amelio: They focused on margins at the expense of product quality and market share. IBM bragged about becoming a service company in the 1990s, a tacit admission that they had relinquished any claim to being a participant, much less a leader, in personal computers. Neither company is dead today, but they illustrate the two paths. Apple turned things around with a combination of luck and a maverick CEO. IBM isn't technically dead, but it is dead in a sense that pg once described: Nobody fears them, and they don't influence anyone's choices.
  • wincent 7y ago
    > Not everyone needs any-platform syncing; you only need a solution that covers the devices you actually have. You still have the vendor lock-in problem though. Somebody might only have Apple devices now, but 5 years from now the fact that all their data is in Apple's cloud (and maybe they got their whole family to put it in there too) makes it that much harder to switch away when you realize that Apple still hasn't fixed its keyboards.
  • TeMPOraL 7y ago
    > Not everyone needs any-platform syncing; you only need a solution that covers the devices you actually have. Not if you want to sync with other people, or with work. There are three major types of desktop OSes and two mobile ones; even if you just one of each, you probably know and interact with people using a different set.
    • chipotle_coyote 7y ago
      Well, that was intended to be implied by the "not everyone" part, but re-reading, I should have say "you may only need a solution that covers the devices you actually have." Personally, I only need Dropbox for Scrivener syncing at this point, because my current workplace (and my previous one, IIRC) is standardized on Google Drive for document sharing -- and I don't share work documents to my personal devices.
• mr_toad 7y ago
  OneDrive has iOS, MacOS and Android clients. iCloud has Windows and Android clients. As far as I know the only way to access either on Linux is to use a browser.