"proud to be Mac" because their fully cross-platform offerings include Mac OS and iOS? Really? And of course they're looking forward to a major update to one of those platforms which will let them do more with it. The article even makes it clear - "and it's similar to what some Android users can already do."
This is trying so hard to tailor a story to a particular audience it's actually somewhat painful to read.
This is trying so hard to tailor a story to a particular audience it's actually somewhat painful to read
That's surprising because based on your comment, I would have suspected you didn't even read the article. Ars has published similar articles in recent days about all the winners of their new Design Award, which they started this year at WWDC to take the place of Apple's Design Award that is now only for iPhone/iPad apps unlike past years.
"Say I want to have a simple photo uploading service: file into a folder and have those files automatically processed by you guys to post to Ars," said Gross. "There are weird states: if there's some kind of processing state, how do I know that's completed? How do we create the appropriate set of APIs without making it too onerous on the user experience?"
I already set up a simple photo uploading service via Dropbox without the API, by watching subfolders of the box@ourdoings.com Dropbox folder for new files. I never felt the need to do processing of those files in place. Where I'm looking for more API support is handling shared folder requests. There's manual setup involved for new users that I'd like to eliminate.
Seems like being proud of a platform you had no involvement in is misplaced emotional banter.