Actually Genome is simply an identity and relationships provider in the cloud. And this Android app supposed to be just an example of what any developer can do

Actually Genome is simply an identity and relationships provider in the cloud. And this Android app supposed to be just an example of what any developer can do on top of Genome as a platform. And yes, there were plans about exporting this data instead locking you in like FB does these days. Actually there is a part of Genome that I call "drivers", they can hide the complexity and variability of the underlying datasources and web services. For ex. one can write a Genome driver for Outlook or Thunderbird, or you can write a "device driver" for say Foursquare to be able write on top of Genome something like this: //Making your app location aware starbucks = Genome.User.Location.Lastest; It was like Windows API, but for web.