{"id":6965,"date":"2013-02-11T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2013-02-11T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:57:30","slug":"files-as-ui-vs-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/11\/files-as-ui-vs-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Files as UI vs. API"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/informalprotocol.com\/\/2013\/02\/files-as-ui-vs-api\/\">Steve Streza<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/informalprotocol.com\/\/2013\/02\/files-as-ui-vs-api\/\"><p>The Dropbox file UI side of things is optional for users; they have to seek it out, either on the website or by having one of the Dropbox apps - there&rsquo;s nothing stopping you from having a Dropbox account purely for syncing data, without ever installing the Mac app or viewing a directory on the web site. But their syncing of files works. Apps can build better UI on those files whether they&rsquo;re stored locally, stored in Dropbox, or stored in iCloud. But Dropbox has proven it&rsquo;s reliability, and iCloud hasn&rsquo;t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imore.com\/stuck-between-dropbox-was-and-icloud-isnt-yet\">Rene Ritchie<\/a> says that &ldquo;iCloud is the right idea still not realized, Dropbox is the wrong thing done brilliantly well.&rdquo; Instead, I think that it&rsquo;s not yet clear whether iCloud is the right idea; the current feature set is inadequate, and we don&rsquo;t know in which direction Apple will take it. I would liken Dropbox to Unix. It&rsquo;s not the pure, modern system that one would design from scratch today. But the plumbing works, and a good user experience can be built on top.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Streza: The Dropbox file UI side of things is optional for users; they have to seek it out, either on the website or by having one of the Dropbox apps - there&rsquo;s nothing stopping you from having a Dropbox account purely for syncing data, without ever installing the Mac app or viewing a directory [&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":[35,47,16,269],"class_list":["post-6965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-dropbox","tag-icloud","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","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=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6966,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions\/6966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}