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by dcrazy
71 days ago
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Shell extensions are the single most common cause of Explorer crashes according to Raymond Chen. When you realized that Mac OS X didn’t have an equivalent API, did you perhaps consider that it was for a good reason and that you should redesign your application to fit the conventions of the system? How did you conclude that your UI was oh so special that it deserved horking up the Finder experience for your users? |
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Because that was the customer expectation, and our competitors did it too. (Including Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive.)
What we did was work a backdoor channel into Apple to "encourage" them to add an API. I don't know if it was our influence that did it, or the fact that they realized that blocking 3rd party integrations into Finder would be a considered a regression from the general public's POV, but they made their API and we adopted it.