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by MatthewB 5517 days ago
Then what is the point of the frontend app?
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S3 has a web based access application as well. It is nice if you need to just manipulate a few files, check that a backup actually did make it to S3, etc.

Dropbox isn't really a storage company (they're built on top of S3) their secret sauce is in the syncing.