Well, let's take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do:
There would be a folder.
You'd put your stuff in it.
It would sync.
They built that.
Why didn't anyone else build that? I have no idea.
"But," you may ask, "so much more you could do! What about serving public files over the Internet. It could be an easy-to-use Content Delivery Network!"
No, shut up. People don't use that crap. They just want a folder. A folder that syncs.
Who said I was contesting anything? I was agreeing. Well, not agreeing with mocking anyone, but rather praising the Dropbox folks for not trying to make Dropbox work under these circumstances. Trying to make Dropbox do something it wasn't designed to do is hacking. If it doesn't work, fine, I would never mock someone for trying to hack something.
Replies need not be antagonistic, you know. I'm more than a little amazed how quickly people assume disagreement. Aren't we all one big happy family?
In any event, (a) I was coat tailing on your excellent and insightful joke, (b) I quoted someone else's brilliant wit, contributing nothing original, so (c) no matter how people arrived at the idea that my comment wasn't contributing to the conversation, (d) they may be right :-)
