(2013-07-09) Dropbox Broadening Api

Drop Box is broadening the reach of their API. We started with the Sync API, which let developers take advantage of the file syncing technology that took us years to get right. And today, we’re announcing a suite of tools that fundamentally simplifies how developers can build across devices and platforms... With the Datastore API, we’re moving beyond files and providing a new model for effortlessly storing and syncing app data.

Sept17 update: The demo team is trying to show off a digital drawing app that allows you to sketch on your iPad in, say, San Francisco and have the sketch appear simultaneously on a colleague’s device anywhere in the world... Going forward, the company wants to power a new breed of syncable apps that would let you share any kind of data (Data Synch, Sharing) with anyone across any device... The company isn’t selling server space. It’s selling a service... In the future as imagined by Dropbox, the gadgets are dumb, the features are smart, and data trumps devices. And that data doesn’t just follow us on our laptops, phones, and tablets. It’s in our cars, our fridges, our watches.

(Amazingly, the article makes no mention of PRISM.)

I wonder if other companies (AppNet? SimpleNote?) will clone their API...