[fit2rule]

The most frustrating thing for me, while watching a new generation of users grow up on Dropbox and similar functionality, is that this sort of thing should really be in the Operating System by now, as a standard feature.

But it seems the OS vendors have lost their way and are chasing shiny colors and new hardware, as usual.

Wasn't so long ago you kind of expected a new filesharing technology to be built-in to the operating system. But it does seem like those days are over - the line keeps getting redrawn, which defines what an "OS" is, to most people. At this point, at least in the case of Dropbox, the Web seems to have driven us all mad.

Store your stuff outside your house, on someone elses hardware? Really?

[jinushaun]

Or, more likely... monopoly concerns. You are seeing the fall out of the MS anti-trust case. The kinds of innovation you talk about pretty much stopped after that. You will soon see the fall out of the Google anti-trust case.

[fit2rule]

>You are seeing the fall out of the MS anti-trust case.

Good point, and actually I'll start to accommodate this in my considerations of the topic in the future.

[toxican]

Can't say I'm surprised considering every single major OS has its own cloud service. Why would Apple, MS, Google help people not use iCloud, OneDrive, and Google Drive?