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You're right, but "look, GDrive has an API" is actually kind of neat - this complaint would be more justified on the other threads, IMHO.

That's true, should have looked for a better one to post this at.

In some areas perhaps it hasn't got some of the functionality that Dropbox has, but it also seems to be scratching a lot of itches which Dropbox isn't even considering scratching.

This is not to say Dropbox should consider. Just I don't think you could say this offering pales in comparison to Dropbox. The app SDK in particular looks exciting.

It's not like Drive is that great. Actually it very much pales next to Dropbox.

That sounds remarkably sour. Nonetheless, it gets attention because it had been talked about for literally years (back to the latter 2000s). On the day of release it isn't super surprising that it's getting some love.