Haha yes I'm aware that it's a seperate project but it also seems like a tightly bound seperate project. I'd not be surprised to see some changes in Ember for the sake of ED's convenience for example. Ember Data is destined to be the dominant solution when it goes stable. That makes me want to use Ember Data, you know, it feels like "the whole stack". But I can't now :)

Angular has nothing like ED. There is $resource, which is basically a wrapper around $http to provide some sugar. Not really extensible. But it works. The thing with angular is that the change tracking is transparent, so any simple javascript object / array is fine as a model. That makes it bearable to work with an inferior data library.