Dropbox company said it will further exert the cloud computing field

According to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> media reports, the network storage service provider Dropbox recently held the first developer conference in San Francisco, USA. Dropbox at the meeting showed that the company hopes to further exert the cloud computing field.
The company said it wanted developers to use Dropbox as a storage system when building applications.
　　
"We are replacing the hard drive," Dru Houston, Dropbox chief executive, said in a media interview. I'm not saying that when you unload your MacBook, you'll find a Dropbox in it, but what we're about to release is theoretically the successor to the hard drive. ”
　　
Today, the company launched a service to developers called data storage (datastore). It allows applications to store information in the cloud. For example, the service allows the application to record the player's score in the game and, when replaced on another device, by synchronizing the score data to ensure that the other player does not fall.
　　
In addition, the company also introduced a "dropins" tool. This tool allows Web sites to easily move files into or out of Dropbox account space. This April, Yahoo has used the tool to connect its 300 million-mailbox account with Dropbox.
　　
Houston said at the meeting that the company had no plans to charge developers fees. Dropbox will continue to use the existing business model, that is, the Professional Edition and enterprise users charge service fees.
　　
He also said that Dropbox currently has 175 million users. In November 2012, the number of users of the company's services was 100 million.
　　
It all sounds familiar. Indeed, Dropbox's biggest opponent, box, is also working with developers, hoping to become the next-generation hard drive, and is said to have been leading Dropbox for several years.
　　
According to a spokesman for the company, tens of thousands of developers have used box as a hard drive to apply, or have tried other company collaboration tools.
　　
Allen Levi, the box chief executive, Aaronlevie the media that he believes the market can accommodate two or more competitors, a market of billions of dollars, as it involves migrating from legacy storage devices to the "cloud".