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Re:Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device... by whydid on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:32AM (#28156075)
Can we all take a moment to discuss how Dropbox, the publicly-traded company with a 1b market cap, still doesn't have a native m1 client for MacOS?

Does anyone have insight on what's taking them so long? I assume they forked an older version of Electron that doesn't support m1.

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Re:Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device... by gwbas1c on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:43AM (#28156230)
The new Dropbox client is written in Rust.

You can't build a file sync client with Electron. You need very granular filesystem access, which is something that Electron does poorly.

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Re:Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device... by coreyward on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:04PM (#28217350)
Rust got M1 support in November, 2020. There are many other Rust apps that work on M1. This isn't a viable excuse for a publicly traded behemoth that keeps taking on new verticals while ignoring the one feature users care about.
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