Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
by ptomato on Saturday September 10, 2016 @10:35AM
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Their only feature which necessitated that, as far as I know, was the sync status badge display which is hardly necessary to the product.
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Seamless "filesystem integration" -- which includes the Finder badging -- was central to what made Dropbox a novel product.
It's also a very useful feature that served people well.
Their filesystem integration would have been just as seamless without the badging. I admit the badging is a useful feature, and certainly made Dropbox better but by no means is it core to the product.
Re:How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
by Blaisorblade0 on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:30AM
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You're talking past each other — other, more fundamental features used to require hacking OS X.
See for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467149. IIRC ArsTechnica wrote at some point that monkey-patching Mac OS/Mac OS X was standard on the platform.