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by zimpenfish 1155 days ago
> Do people still use Dropbox?

Yep but it's mostly because I have many things which integrate with it -- loads of IFTTT recipes, apps, and sites that automatically sync things for you. If iCloud had a public API that people could integrate with the same way, I'd probably drop Dropbox at some point.
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lotsofpulp 1155 days ago
I only use Dropbox because Brother Webconnect does not support iCloud Drive.

https://www.brother-usa.com/brother-web-connect

Very convenient that Brother MFC machines can automatically upload OCR’d scans to your Dropbox/onedrive/box/google drive account, but I would like to only use iCloud Drive. Wonder if Apple is dropping the ball on that functionality though.

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zimpenfish 1155 days ago
> Wonder if Apple is dropping the ball on that functionality though.

They definitely are but I can understand why they don't want to be bothered supporting something like that. Plus I think the time to be starting that was about a decade ago...

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EduardoBautista 1155 days ago
iCloud does have a public API: https://developer.apple.com/icloud/icloud-drive/.
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zimpenfish 1155 days ago
I don't think iOS / macOS SDKs count as a "public API". I mean, obviously, a HTTP API that anyone can auth against and perform file operations against - like the Dropbox API.
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