{"id":6705,"date":"2012-12-17T16:26:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2015-06-19T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T17:12:58","slug":"dropbox-the-linchpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/17\/dropbox-the-linchpin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox: The Linchpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/12\/17\/dropbox-linchpin\">John Gruber<\/a> (reacting to <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenellis.tumblr.com\/post\/37219471014\/god-only-knows-why-but-people-have-asked-for-this\">Warren Ellis<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/12\/17\/dropbox-linchpin\"><p>The scary part though, is that one recurrent theme I see in nearly every single &ldquo;how I write on the iPad&rdquo; story is Dropbox. It&rsquo;s the linchpin in the workflow. Scary, because Dropbox is outside Apple&rsquo;s control. Scary, because if not for Dropbox, many of these people would not be using their iPads as much as they are. Scary, because Apple&rsquo;s iCloud falls short of Dropbox.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>He says that Apple should <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2012\/12\/17\/apple-dropbox\">buy Dropbox<\/a>. This might be a good move for Apple, but I doubt it would be good for Dropbox users.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber (reacting to Warren Ellis): The scary part though, is that one recurrent theme I see in nearly every single &ldquo;how I write on the iPad&rdquo; story is Dropbox. It&rsquo;s the linchpin in the workflow. Scary, because Dropbox is outside Apple&rsquo;s control. Scary, because if not for Dropbox, many of these people would not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,35,47,16,1227],"class_list":["post-6705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-cloud","tag-dropbox","tag-icloud","tag-top-posts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11526,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions\/11526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}