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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by bch on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @09:31PM (#9775503)
Google should punt and release a library and let application developers worry about working with distributions.

Edit: never mind. They have published specs. Are they not good/stable or have no devs stepped up yet? https://developers.google.com/drive/web/about-sdk

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Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up by gecko on Thursday June 25, 2015 @11:26AM (#9778585)
Probably a mix of that and the fact that Drive supports a hybrid of traditional folders and tagging that you can't ignore (it would break things) and you can't cleanly implement on Linux (there's no real reliable mechanism to support tags that works on XFS, ext4, and Btrfs, which seems like the bare minimum today you'd need to cover).
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