This is an interesting little Quora thread about Dropbox’s popularity that I found through Daring Fireball. The top two responses from Michael Wolfe and Isaac Hall (co-founder of Syncplicity) are not directly Mac-related, but they do remind me a lot about the tenets of Mac design that Apple fans love to preach: that design is more about the good ideas you choose to exclude.
I actually remember trying to use Syncplicity back when it came out. I was alright with its mechanic of setting it up to “watch” certain folders and sync them to between my netbook and desktop, but I don’t remember liking Syncplicity nearly as much as I do Dropbox. It could well have to do with the fact that my tastes have changed over the last few years, but I think it also has to do with how simple and clean the Dropbox experience is: take a file, put it in My Dropbox folder, and then watch as it syncs.
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