But if we have an Android app too, Google has its own solution to that.

“If we have an iPhone app, we can save stuff in iCloud, and that would probably work great. “The main problem is that there aren’t cross-platform options today,” said Jon Peppers, a senior application developer with Hitcents, which makes mobile games and custom enterprise apps. Users get an easy way to sync their data through a single online account, and developers don’t have to do as much work. Datastore could also make sense for drawing apps, task managers, notation apps, and expense managers-anything where working across multiple devices is necessary. An obvious example is gaming: Stop playing a game on your Android phone, and Dropbox could let you resume on an iPad. One of these developer tools is dubbed Datastore, and it’s basically a way for apps to save their data to Dropbox’s servers. The new tools for developers are the other half. “The interesting part is what happens along the way.”ĭropbox’s existing apps and desktop sync tools are only half of the equation. “We’re swiftly heading towards a world where users paying for cloud storage is going to be as common as users paying for a phone bill,” says Matthews. With Dropbox, your data will always follow you, so you don’t even have to think about it. The company wants to make sure you never have to worry about whether you saved your work on your iPhone, Nexus 7, or Windows PC-similar to what Microsoft is trying to do with SkyDrive, but extending beyond the Windows ecosystem. It’s easy to see what Dropbox is trying to accomplish.

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