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End of support for OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Why pull support and remove functionality? Why not just drop support -- just stop updating the app but still allow basic functionality? There are still a lot of legacy machines that are still in use ...
I'm sure by now that any Dropbox "powers to be" have stopped looking at this and other threads: their plan is going to be implemented.
Yet it has come to mind that there was a great opportunity here for the Dropbox team to have a plan somewhere between "continued support" and "logged out forever". That opportunity is to continue providing server login support for these older systems and implement an "enhanced LAN sync" as the only thing the older client can do. That would not help some customers at all—I realize that. Yet for those that have at least one supported client in their LAN it would allow these older systems to continue to share the benefits of Dropbox without needing to use the Dropbox servers as the workhorse.
Such an "enhanced LAN sync" could also be the basis for a new Dropbox service for enterprises that want Dropbox but need to maintain all their data locally, not in an external cloud. Providing this as a for-fee service wouldn't be out of the question, and many customers here in the forums have said they'd be willing to pay something (reasonable) for the ability to keep their older systems in the loop.
Options are what we expect from vendors, not "… we gave you lots of notice. Now move along."
