Dropbox is a well-known cloud that allows us to store all our files on an external server, like other competing services like Apple's iCloud. Just this week, Dropbox has released new tools that enable developers to better integrate the service into their applications.
Dropbox is releasing the new API reserved for developers to improve the integration of service platforms iOS and Android. Although technically not add new API user, but these life easier for developers to use Dropbox support into their applications.
The simplified integration could persuade developers to choose Dropbox as cloud storage service default, thus increasing the popularity of the service.
Dropbox, thanks to its 100 million users, is slowly redefining itself in order to compete with increasingly fierce rivals led by very strong companies, such as Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, but also Box or SugarSync.
The company hopes that these changes and small steps can evolve into new and more efficient services, and must therefore be beyond the easy synchronization of files, the backups or archiving. Dropbox could add as photo albums or storage application data directly on its servers.
With this new API, Dropbox will make a direct attack on iCloud, which, although perfectly integrated in iOS, can often be limited to on other platforms and also makes difficult its use by users.
Dropbox will then be a cross between a storage service files and a service provider which, thanks to its compatibility with a multitude of platforms and large number of users, could hit and fill the weaknesses of its competitor services.
Via | The Verge
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