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Dropbox-style file syncing is a transitional technology. They won't be around in 10 years unless they reinvent themselves. The reason is, personal computers a
by wavephorm 15y ago
Dropbox-style file syncing is a transitional technology. They won't be around in 10 years unless they reinvent themselves. The reason is, personal computers are being phased out. That means local filesystems are going to move online where a service like Dropbox becomes redundant.
What's broken is the personal computer. It was wrong form the start. Thin client computing is already back en vogue, just now we call it tablets/smartphones and cloud.
- sendos 15y ago> What's broken is the personal computer. It was wrong form the start. It wasn't broken from the start. It was the only thing possible without ubiquitous broadband access. Now that we are getting close to ubiquitous broadband access, the cloud (thin clients) are starting to make sense, but they were impossible back when the only connection to the web was dialup.