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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?

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