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And Dropbox is just rsync, right?
by chrisseaton 5y ago
And Dropbox is just rsync, right?
- Macha 5y agoHasn't this ultimately been the downfall of Dropbox? Not that consumers are doing it themselves, but Microsoft, Google, etc. all spun up competitors and turned their main product into a feature. Their one selling point is being the independent option, and I'm not sure the people who care about that are actually large enough to sustain them long term...
- Spivak 5y agoEh? Kinda. Storage still costs money and they’re all about the same. Dropbox loses because of preferential integration and defaults.
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- chrisseaton 5y agoAll software is replicable by a competitor. How you create it into a product is what matters. That's what the 'rsync' dumb argument misses.
- cunthorpe 5y agoTo be fair so far it looks like it's just VNC from a browser. Call me when I open an app and it's transparently run from a remote server, similar to what they've done with the Windows Defender Application Guard (i.e. it looks like a regular Edge window, but it's run in a VM) Opening a browser in a OS in a browser in a OS isn't that revolutionary. Cloud Gaming demonstrated this decades ago.
- user3939382 5y ago> I open an app and it's transparently run from a remote server Windows Server has a feature like that called RemoteApp, it's pretty cool!
- f1refly 5y agoThat's an easy task with xorg based desktop environments, it's more performant as well
- chrisseaton 5y agoSomething doesn’t have to be revolutionary to be a good product. They don’t claim it’s a research result!
- williamtwild 5y ago>Cloud Gaming demonstrated this decades ago. What cloudd gaming service existed devades ago?
- Alaba 5y agoOnLive existed in 2009