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I wonder if Apple will approve this, as it seems to allow the iPhone to do something that Apple doesn't want it to do?

If Apple wanted apps to talk to each other in the (IMO very sensible) way that Android does, wouldn't they have done so?

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We've been working with apple since WWDC, they know what we're doing and are fine with it.

Are you afraid they are using you for market verification?

Not particularly. In a sense larger, established companies are always looking at startups for market verification; the startups that succeed are the ones that can out-pace the established companies.

In addition, there are market dynamics that preclude any of the larger players truly building a platform for interoperability. See for example the recent Google/Microsoft turf wars, that Mailbox only supports attachments from Dropbox, iOS native composer only works with Mail and not gmail, etc.

I'm curious how the inter-device communication will work. Will I be able to send data from my iPad to my Android phone, for example? That would be pretty slick if so.

Speaking of DropBox, they seem like a natural competitor in this space. Given that they are also a YCombinator startup, has that been discussed? Or is it more likely they will just be happy to be one of the many backends you support?

They already approved AudioBus[1], something similar for music apps. In fact, the iOS version of GarageBand supports it now, which was unexpected.

[1]: http://audiob.us

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