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Does any of the cloud competitors already offer a similar api that would let my app users use their infra instead of mine? Or associate my app into their ui? Or is this a novel from google?

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Windows 8 and Skydrive has a similar concept built into it called contracts. Developers can integrate their app to work with Windows 8's UI. For example you can search your Flikr or Facebook directly in the OS in the same way that you search the file system.

Here's a video demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hesj1I_wsqI#t=12m00s

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/archive/2012/03/23/act...

Win8 contracts seem very similar to Android's "Intent" functionality.

We currently do that with http://filepicker.io/ across multiple cloud providers (only Dropbox and Facebook for now though)

We currently only support opening and saving back files but we plan to add save-as support in the next few days

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