Dropbox is on a quest, according to TechCrunch writer Matthew Panzarino: The cloud-based file-sharing service hopes to become your default photo library. As evidence, Panzarino points to the fact that Dropbox apps on the Mac now automatically detect, upload and prepare shared links to screenshots users capture with their computers.

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Panzarino writes that this new Dropbox feature is only going to benefit a niche group of users, those like journalists, app developers and heavy Twitter users taking a lot of screenshots. But that is not important. What’s important is the fact that Dropbox is taking another step to being the top photo-sharing service on the Web.

A future of ease?

This can make life easier for you, mind you. Wouldn’t it be simple to have Dropbox detect that photo you just snapped on your smartphone and then upload it automatically to your Dropbox account? That day may not be far-off.

Success?

Will Dropbox achieve its quest to be the cloud’s go-to site for storing photos? That’s debatable. There are many competitors now, and plenty more will certainly turn up. But Dropbox already has earned raves from its present users. It’s not so difficult to imagine a time when Dropbox becomes essentially the default photo-sharing service in the cloud.