Is the syncing algorithm for Dropbox now going to be identical to that of iCloud Drive? Yikes. I’m not an expert here, but these are the patterns I’ve seen play out many times over the years.īut I swore I would never use iCloud Drive for any mass storage after it held my entire home directory hostage for days once, making the contents even unreadable while it struggled to resolve syncing confusion Dropbox has never been unreliable that way, and that is why I swear by Dropbox. If an app uses approved APIs to open files and Dropbox uses approved APIs to sync, then the OS can ensure that even a Zero KB online-only file that an app tries to open can do so in a way that opaques the underlying storage and sync model. This is where OS-level support is critical, and “rolling your own” will be fraught with problems. We have already seen Dropbox warning users for the past few months that as of Ventura(?), some apps are not able to properly open files that are “online only”. But it may include Finder/Search integration. Perhaps other apps will try to avoid the File Provider API, but they will also lose the “seamless experience” (per Dropbox) that goes with it, though I’m not sure what that is. If that’s the case, how optimistic should we be that everyone else isn’t headed this way? More to the current topic, Dropbox doesn’t appear to be moving this folder because they want to, but because Apple is making them do it. I don’t understand their entire business model, but I’d be surprised if their client wasn’t part of the equation, if only to keep prompting you to a) upgrade, and b) start auto-syncing your photos, etc, thereby cornering you a position where you have to upgrade Think Twitter and Google Maps for starters.ĭropbox is a huge business. There are at least 3 reasons I would hesitate before swapping in a 3rd party Dropbox client:Ĭloud providers have a bad history of pulling their APIs that allow for 3rd party clients.
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