I went to Syncthing as well and it works, but it's still no match for the DropBox of a few years ago.
I don’t understand why one would expect to be able to compete with iCloud, google drive, one drive. They have so much cash to burn.
Have you ever known Apple to “burn cash”? They have this crazy idea that products should be sold at a profit.
As in, whatever you can do, they can do better, since they are able to spend so much more.
It’s not they can do it “better”. They can do it “good enough” so that most people aren’t willing to use a smaller vendor and where the value add is not enough to have a sustainable business - see Dropbox, Spotify, Etc.
The CTO probably had a lions share in that. Not surprised how it went. :(