Something lost in this "Dropbox is a feature, not a product" story is that today, more than 10 years later, iCloud Drive (Apple' s implementation of this "feature") still sucks. And Dropbox is arguably only falling behind because macOS has made it increasingly difficult to make a 3rd party syncing solution that "just works.” So maybe the real lesson is that Apple, like Game of Thrones’ Littlefinger, "would see the [OS] burn, as long as they can be king of the ashes”.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/06/wwdc24_apple_intelligence
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