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I for one does not think it has any chance competing agaist Dropbox. Every Google client software hasn't been updated for decades. What's the last time you saw an update to that native Google Talk windows client? Google Desktop for Windows? Desktop Search?

Google makes desktop clients in a half assed way. It will never be half decent as Dropbox.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but at least in the case of Google Talk you could argue that the client software has been superseded by web-based interfaces and/or browser extensions.

And other programs like Google Earth and Picasa have received continued updates.

Google Chrome is regularly updated.

Sync is only one feature. It doesn't need updates.

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