I've been a Dropbox user even before switching off Google Apps, because Dropbox has a much better client and compared to alternatives, Oh, definitely. Outside

I've been a Dropbox user even before switching off Google Apps, because Dropbox has a much better client and compared to alternatives, Oh, definitely. Outside mobile, the Dropbox client is miles ahead. I was just saying that a Google Apps account and Fastmail account is not directly comparable, since Google Apps offers so much more. If you're a power user interested in security, there's also SpiderOak. I don't see the added benefit. As long as the standard client is closed source, it's only a bit better from a security perspective. That's $5 per month per user and is applied for all users in your Google Apps account, whether they need it or not. Definitely. But we were comparing to Fastmail, where storage costs 1GB for $5 USD/year for enhanced accounts. Just for comparison, for 100GB that is $41 per month above the base account cost, compared to $1.99 per GMail. Then a $4 per month account plus $1.99 for 100GB or $5 for 1TB doesn't look so bad. But nobody stops you from continuing to use Google's Docs, in combination with Fastmail and Dropbox or whatever. If you use Google Docs outside Google Apps, your documents can be mined for advertising. No thanks! You shouldn't forget that Gmail is about email and if Gmail no longer does email well for you, then complementaries like Google Drive or Google Docs won't make it magically work better at email. I have Fastmail and Google Apps and I still like Google Mail more in general. For instance, I prefer labeling over folders and the mobile GMail/Inbox apps are a far better experience than the Fastmail app. But I don't agree with the premise. One of the nice things of Google Apps is integration, e.g. mail <-> calendar, Google Now, and Inbox. Dropbox realized how important this is and started pushing integration beyond providing an API for apps (Office Web integration, Office plugins, Google Mail extension, etc.)