I hate being negative, but I really don't see the use case. I have a text editor and Dropbox installed on my machine, why would I want to install this editor?
In the context of something like Chrome OS, stuff like this is vital to being able to do meaningful development work. It's also pretty cool to have your personal development environment, settings, etc. immediately accessible from wherever you may be.
In that context it really does make sense
I still don't get it. I would love to use Dropbox but I can't install it everywhere I go since the installation requires admin rights and I don't have them at the university's computer for example. But I can use SSH and therefore SCP from any computer without admin rights, so I really don't see what this does except eliminate the need for a shell account, which are practically free, heck even VPS's are beginning to be almost free nowadays.
I'm pretty sure you don't have to install Dropbox; the app is just using it as local storage 'in the cloud'. It'd be nice if there were an interface to swap it out for other things, like Microsoft, Google, EC2 or Rackspace storage.
Hmm - new project idea...
you dont have to install dropbox locally to use this, it will load your files through the dropbox api from wherever you are.
I want it for my ipad..
Something like this is perfect when using Chrome OS.