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I never had to go to the Mac App Store to download Finder though.



If you did have to download Finder from the Mac App Store, would that turn Finder into a competitor of Dropbox?


Only if it means that Finder doesn’t have any special system access privileges - or that Dropbox can do everything Finder can - so Finder and Dropbox would be on equal-footing.


I'll give my opinion as a consumer.

Sometime in early 2019, I bought an iPad (pre ipad OS). I went to a website and downloaded a journal PDF. I had no idea where the file was physically located. Safari didn't provide an indication, and there didn't appear to be a File Manager of any kind built in. So I had to search online for an app, just to locate a a file I had downloaded through the browser.

I returned the iPad and went back to Android, which has had file explorers built in since forever (both stock Android or OEM skin). "It just works".


I believe Files was integrated into iOS on release, but even system-integrated apps have entries on the App store to say re-add them after being removed by the user.


Oddly I had to on my new iPad Pro. Wasn’t there.


iPad != Mac


Huge face palm!




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