New Dropbox SDK Satisfies App Store Review Guidelines

[KnightWRX]

We've been here before, you're twisting what the documentation says and then interpreting in the way you want to.

No, I'm not. The documentation is darn clear, there isn't even room for interpretation. You're the one trying to read to much into it and invent things that aren't there.

For In-App purchases, Apple processes your payment. That's it, you get to deal with getting whatever you promised to your customer. 30%.

 

[artvandelayIII]

For custom tags yes but it requires no more effort than creating a folder. In fact when you think about what a folder really is it's simply a graphic that represents a tag.

I could have a folder structure that is Documents > 2011> Work> Presentations

Which easily is duplicatable as Tags.

I agree with you here, that tags are a much more flexible implementation of what folders do. I love tags in Gmail and hate how Google Docs moved away from them into a half-tag/half-folder mess.

BUT, I just don't see any evidence of iCloud offering anything of the sort. Quite the opposite, it seems to great every app as a silo, which is just crazy.

While this may seem off topic Dropbox engineers probably took considerable effort to make sure all file attributes remained with the file despite that file being sent across their cloud infrastructure.

Yes. I really appreciate labels and metadata being synced between Macs, and I'd welcome some more flexible and smart metadata in the Finder context (versus labels, which are severely limited).

But as far as iOS, it still totally lacks any cohesive file system, and Dropbox subs in quite nicely. In a perfect world, it would have access to some fantastic new metadata as well and people who are up for it could get more creative in organizing files. But the fact that it's cross-platform means folders are here to stay for a while.

 

[Sackvillenb]

Some interesting debate on this thread.

The way I see it, iCloud and dropbox re very complementary to each other, and to me they have very different purposes, that are only generally related.

As for the who file-system thing... regardless of wether it's done with folders of tags or whatever, the iPad could really use SOME sort of organizational system for information. Because, right now, it literally has none. NONE. Yes, some 3rd party apps provide some of this functionality, but that's hardly the same as having an integration system to manage data and files. And let's face it, if you have a decent amount of "data and files" you need some way to organize them. And not just by app. :/

And this will come, someday, to the iPad. I guarantee it. Might take a few years though!