{"id":7227,"date":"2013-04-01T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T02:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2014-03-26T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T20:57:11","slug":"amazon-turns-cloud-drive-into-a-dropbox-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/01\/amazon-turns-cloud-drive-into-a-dropbox-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Turns Cloud Drive Into a Dropbox Rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2013\/04\/amazon-turns-cloud-drive-into-a-dropbox-rival-with-file-syncing\/\">Jon Brodkin<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2013\/04\/amazon-turns-cloud-drive-into-a-dropbox-rival-with-file-syncing\/\"><p>Like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft&rsquo;s SkyDrive, the Cloud Drive desktop application (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000796781\">download it here<\/a>) creates a new folder in your file manager. The desktop application supports all Windows versions from XP to 8 and Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8.<\/p>\r\n<p>The application requires Java.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Pros: Cheaper than Dropbox for high capacities, no Finder haxie, doesn&rsquo;t require admin privileges.<\/p>\r\n<p>Cons: No file history, no API that I could find, more limited sharing features, no compelling advantages at the free tier.<\/p>\r\n<p>Update (2013-04-02): I did some testing, and it appears to discard Finder labels and extended attributes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Brodkin: Like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft&rsquo;s SkyDrive, the Cloud Drive desktop application (download it here) creates a new folder in your file manager. The desktop application supports all Windows versions from XP to 8 and Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8. The application requires Java. Pros: Cheaper than Dropbox for high capacities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[19,35,47,269],"class_list":["post-7227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-cloud","tag-dropbox","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227","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=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8594,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions\/8594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}