Houston and several guests spent most of the keynote talking about the Dropbox Platform, a suite of technologies which lets apps of all sorts treat Dropbox storage even more like a hard drive - and allows them to manage data of all sorts, not just the stuff we think of as files stored on a disk.īy using just a few lines of code, developers of iOS, Android and web apps can now plug in Dropbox’s standardized file Chooser and Saver, letting users open and save files stored on their Dropbox accounts as if they resided locally. (Users get 2GB of space to start and can get more by paying or through referrals.)ĭid Dropbox have any announcements on tap that might turn it into any more of a hard-drive killer than it already was? For an awful lot of people, Dropbox is already the great hard disk in the sky - a single place to store documents, photos, videos and other items where they’re available from everywhere and can reliably sync themselves onto devices of all sorts. In this case, however, I wasn’t sure whether Houston’s statement was too audacious, or not audacious enough. And then, as he started to talk about product-related news, he began with the sort of audacious declaration that’s entirely standard in tech-company keynotes: “Today, the hard drive goes away.” Follow cloud-storage company Dropbox‘s DBX event today in San Francisco - the first developer conference the company has ever held - CEO and cofounder Drew Houston began his keynote by announcing that the service now has 175 million users.
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