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I am no expert in online synchronized storage. I am merely a consumer who has used ICloud, Dropbox and Google Drive. From my perspective iCloud has been a disap

I am no expert in online synchronized storage. I am merely a consumer who has used ICloud, Dropbox and Google Drive. From my perspective iCloud has been a disappointment, Google Drive has been ok (we also use Google Apps in my company) and Dropbox seems to be the easier and more popular setup with my staff. The only issue I have is with their pricing (I find their company plans confusing), but we all know that is a new landing page away if they decide to change it. The equation is not about $dollars per Gb storage per year, it is more about $/Gb/MyPain which is a more subtle equation. If my employees like Dropbox better than Drive, the few dollars in cost difference is inconsequential. The employees time costs many multiples more than the storage. I think the article fails to acknowledge this.

FigBug 14y ago
I really like iCloud, but it's not a competitor to Dropbox/Google Drive or even a feature itself. I have and iPohone, 2 iPads, and 2 Macs. (Home/Work) I really like how everything is just synced without thinking about it. We use Dropbox at work a company of about 10. We don't have any servers or IT. Everything just goes it Dropbox shared folders. Works very well and never have to think about it. Since Dropbox is for work, I moved all my personal files to Google Drive. On feature lists it should be the same or better, but I find it just never works reliably. A lot of times I find it just sitting there unable to connect and there seems to be no option to reconnect other than exit and restart. The UI on Dropbox seems a lot more polished.
- pqs 14y ago
  > Since Dropbox is for work, I moved all my personal files to Google Drive. On feature lists it should be the same or better, but I find it just never works reliably Three months ago I decided to put all my pictures on a cloud provider. I really liked Dropbox but I chose G. Drive, because of the price. I put my 15k photos on my G. Drive and then the client went crazy. My old (2007) MacBook couldn't cope with it, it rapidly used 100% of my computer's 2GB of RAM and my CPU was also at full capacity. Thus, I decided to try the same exercice on Dropbox. I moved the whole pictures folder and Dropbox handled it perfectly using a few MB of RAM. Since then, I'm a happy paying Dropbox user.

FigBug 14y ago

I really like iCloud, but it's not a competitor to Dropbox/Google Drive or even a feature itself. I have and iPohone, 2 iPads, and 2 Macs. (Home/Work) I really like how everything is just synced without thinking about it. We use Dropbox at work a company of about 10. We don't have any servers or IT. Everything just goes it Dropbox shared folders. Works very well and never have to think about it. Since Dropbox is for work, I moved all my personal files to Google Drive. On feature lists it should be the same or better, but I find it just never works reliably. A lot of times I find it just sitting there unable to connect and there seems to be no option to reconnect other than exit and restart. The UI on Dropbox seems a lot more polished.

pqs 14y ago
> Since Dropbox is for work, I moved all my personal files to Google Drive. On feature lists it should be the same or better, but I find it just never works reliably Three months ago I decided to put all my pictures on a cloud provider. I really liked Dropbox but I chose G. Drive, because of the price. I put my 15k photos on my G. Drive and then the client went crazy. My old (2007) MacBook couldn't cope with it, it rapidly used 100% of my computer's 2GB of RAM and my CPU was also at full capacity. Thus, I decided to try the same exercice on Dropbox. I moved the whole pictures folder and Dropbox handled it perfectly using a few MB of RAM. Since then, I'm a happy paying Dropbox user.