anyway, the point of that rant was that dropbox uses a _local_ folder with efficient sync in the background, which is an important difference :)Ģ. sure for docs of a few hundred k it's fine, but doing work on large docs on an online drive feels like walking around with cinder blocks tied to your feet. the open file common dialog listing a directory and poking files for various attributes or icons) serially, suddenly your UI locks up for _seconds_ (joel spolsky summarizes this well in his article on leaky abstractions.) ditto saving any file you change one character in your 20mb word file and hit save, and your upstream-capped 40k/sec comcast connection is hosed for 8 minutes. if the server is 80ms away, and you do 100 accesses (e.g. are worse), and most apps are written as if the disk was local, and assume, for example, accessing a file only takes a few ms.
#MAKE A DROPBOX ON UBUNTU FOR MAC AND WINDOWS WINDOWS#
Windows for sure doesn't hide latency well (CIFS is bad, webdav etc. and even if they were plug and play, the problem is that the user experience (on windows at least) with online drives generally sucks, and you don't have disconnected access.
re: the first part, many people want something plug and play.
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