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But this wasn't "allowed" or endorsed by Apple. It was a third-party company doing something underhanded. Is there some reason Dropbox would be more trustworthy

by pfranz 6y ago

But this wasn't "allowed" or endorsed by Apple. It was a third-party company doing something underhanded. Is there some reason Dropbox would be more trustworthy on Linux? I think the "lame overreach" hurts the credibility of the argument--even if it has merit.

systemvoltage 6y ago
Exactly. Does Linux not have a crap piece of software sending data to Amazon servers? Oh right. Ubuntu.
cmsj 6y ago
Apple actually worked against Dropbox a few times in recent years, and added a bunch of APIs for annotating files in Finder, to stop Dropbox from monkeypatching it. More recently Dropbox has started using a kernel extension to support its SmartSync feature, which will soon be stymied, as Apple makes it more convoluted to load third party kexts in Big Sur.