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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by amelius on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:37PM (#13322292)
Why should a photo app be integrated into a filesystem? That sounds like bad engineering to me. And also like a bad value-proposition.

A filesystem should be just that, a filesystem. And thirdparty apps should be able to use it to store pictures and such.

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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by tspike on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:40PM (#13322309)
What are your recommendations for a fast, intuitive, portable third-party solution that uses Dropbox as a data store for my use case?

Edit: While separating these concerns (storage and presentation) is a solid software engineering approach, without open standards it would seem to just add additional layers of vendor lock-in and brittleness. Syncing to local storage is a non-starter for mobile.

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