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by eps 4943 days ago
I think they are trying to speed up the initial backup phase. Uploading 300 gigs of data is no fun. Once they have the data, it's trivial to make the contents accessible via the web/native interface if that's what the client want.

But this would dillute the focus of the service. It'd become just another Dropbox clone with a minor twist.