Exactly. Here I am thinking Dropbox is awesome because it's both stable and just works. Who knew a product needed to have a steady stream of feature updates until it subsumed the very operating system it sat on top of.

I have three computers running OS X. Currently Dropbox eats around 33% CPU on all of these modern machines. Am I the only one experiencing these problems?

Do you have processes that actively write to files in your Dropbox folder on a regular basis? Dropbox averages < 0.5% CPU on my Mac, but your mileage may vary. I do consider even that much somewhat odd considering that I'm a very occasional user.

Agreed. The poster is speaking for himself: "This is obviously not an optimal development practice - customers paying monthly are starved for new features during these dormant periods"

Personally, I love that they are just leaving sh__ alone. It works. And amazingly well. Just don't touch it. I'm not starving for a dang thing.

And he also spent time to spam this thread up to the front page of HN, what an amazing douchebag!