If Dropbox has picture viewer, why can't it have audio player?
And a webserver!
Amazon Cloud Drive Is Not Dropbox
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#12I would like to see a hybrid between DropBox/Cloud Drive and AWS.
I would like a /sites/ folder into which I can drop webpages and have them autohosted. It has the following structure:
/Sites/
-->/root/ -->/site1/ -->/site2/ -->/siteN/ Putting sites in /sites/ are actually hosted on AWS so that traffic surges can be accounted for.
etc...
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#14This article is kind of backwards to me. Dropbox has an API, and Amazon didn't release one with their Cloud Drive. It's also kind of silly to say that Amazon has mastered storage, but give Dropbox no credit. They obviously have data storage as a core technology. Syncing isn't that valuable to me as a technology. Dropbox didn't invent it. They borrowed it from elsewhere and Amazon could do the same if they wanted to.
> It's also kind of silly to say that Amazon has mastered storage, but give Dropbox no credit. They obviously have data storage as a core technology.
Dropbox buys their storage from Amazon, using S3.
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#15I wouldn’t be surprised if a version of Dropbox that plays nicely with the Cloud Drive is one of the first Cloud Drive apps on the scene. It makes a great deal of sense. Instead of paying Dropbox for storage and syncing, we could just pay them for syncing. It seems rather unlikely to me that people would pay dropbox for their syncing service to store things on someone else's paid storage. I would think that the dropb…
I agree, that's something that https://www.jungledisk.com/ already does and frankly I just prefer dealing with one entity because the experience is better.
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#16>It’s going to do something better: release an API and become a platform. Isn't that what Amazon S3 already is?
Somebody should create a simple little app on top of S3 that runs on all your devices and creates an automatically synced folder. They should make it free for the first couple GB too. Then Cloud Drive would seem kind of lame.
For those who missed the sarcasm...
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#18I would like to see a hybrid between DropBox/Cloud Drive and AWS. I would like a /sites/ folder into which I can drop webpages and have them autohosted. It has the following structure: /Sites/ -->/root/ -->/site1/ -->/site2/ -->/siteN/ Putting sites in /sites/ are actually hosted on AWS so that traffic surges can be accounted for. etc...
I think it'd be fairly easy to put together a v1 quality script hosted on an AWS instance to do that, provided the subdomains have been pre-provisioned or you're ok with them all spinning up on a single instance.
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#19I would like to see a hybrid between DropBox/Cloud Drive and AWS. I would like a /sites/ folder into which I can drop webpages and have them autohosted. It has the following structure: /Sites/ -->/root/ -->/site1/ -->/site2/ -->/siteN/ Putting sites in /sites/ are actually hosted on AWS so that traffic surges can be accounted for. etc...
I think it'd be fairly easy to put together a v1 quality script hosted on an AWS instance to do that, provided the subdomains have been pre-provisioned or you're ok with them all spinning up on a single instance.
Make it so.
--I agree, but I think that this is a viable actual service model as well - as opposed to a duct-tape scripting hack.
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#20If Dropbox has picture viewer, why can't it have audio player?
They don't want to make the music industry mad is my guess, same for video and movies.
Well, what would Amazon be doing with their 5 gig free? People will be uploading their files, are they going to check if they're all legit?
Dropbox could provide audio player for private files.