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It's a feature, but it's not necessarily a feature I can see any OS provider committing to providing properly. Because the really really really important part o
by kemayo 15y ago
It's a feature, but it's not necessarily a feature I can see any OS provider committing to providing properly. Because the really really really important part of Dropbox, for me, is that it's the same cloud storage syncing across several OSes.
Essentially, I am unconvinced that Apple/Microsoft/whoever wants to write a wonderfully transparent cross-platform experience which might, to an extent, subvert their own core platform.
- ImprovedSilence 15y agoI tend to agree. I think Dropbox is the filesystem of the 21st century. iCloud doesn't to it for me, and last I checked, Dropbox was profitable awhile ago. (Correct me if I'm wrong) We can also be confidant DB isn't worth $40 bil yet, but clearly those investors think DB has plans, that they wont just be static and sit where they are at now. I think they're gonna be a big part of pushing the cloud forward, until all we got infront of us are dumb terminals once again. I see these as possibilities, not inevitabilities, but my money is on DB to pull it off.
- rcthompson 15y agoExactly. It's a feature of a product that no one wants to build, so it gets to be a product all on its own instead.
- true_religion 15y agoMaybe they'll create an open standard for file sharing, and let every OS owner write their own client to communicate using that standard.... As I write this, I realize how naively optimistic that sounds. :-\
- i386 15y agoImagine the implications of sever/client combination bugs. Hello, data loss.
- flocial 15y agoI totally agree. Just because Steve Jobs said it doesn't make it true. You want to take a classic negotiating ploy for gospel be my guest. The fact that DropBox is committed to providing a solution across desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux) OSes and mobile devices is what makes it worth paying for.