Dropbox announces the Dropbox Platform, syncing between third-party apps

At Dropbox's first DBX developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Drew Houston announced a new Dropbox Platform, which has a suite of tools to make it easier for apps to access data across devices and operating systems. They're comprised of "Drop-ins," which provide cross-platform UI components, "Chooser," which gives apps instant access to files in Dropbox, and "Saver," which provides one-click saving to the cloud. The Datastore API lets you sync data like contacts, to-do items and game state -...