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Surprised many people here seem to think Google Drive is the defining competitor. When the real money is made in enterprise, which I would say Microsoft dominat
by partiallypro 11y ago
Surprised many people here seem to think Google Drive is the defining competitor. When the real money is made in enterprise, which I would say Microsoft dominates with OneDrive. Microsoft's bundling of Office 365 with OneDrive and internal sharing is something only Google could compete with (but can't because at least for large corporations, Google Docs does not suffice.)
I have found that Google has the best for collaboration, but the money is made in enterprise and OneDrive is making in-roads because of what it is bundled with.
- ams6110 11y agoGoogle Drive and Office/OneDrive are outcompeting because they do both storage and cloud apps with collaborative editing that is feels natural and works well. Dropbox is just storage with some nice sync capability.
- holychiz 11y agoWe have OneDrive but I'm not aware of anybody in our large company using it. Instead our team spend extra money on Dropbox, and Box. OneDrive is clunky, hard to use. It does not even integrate well with Office365, let alone other apps. In terms of UX, OneDrive is a disaster. Google Drive has a fatal flaw that kills its enterprise growth: you have to register your primary domain, no sub-domains allowed. This is fine for start-ups, but in enterprise, if one team sign up for Google Drive, no other teams can sign up separately! In a large company, it's next to impossible for our team to find that original team to pair up for Google services, if they're willing to share the services at all, budget issues and all that.