Microsoft SkyDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox?

2StepSteve said:
Keep prices higher due to the affluent nature of the market? I'm not so sure about four times higher. Even iOS users will find the below price difference hard to swallow.

Drive 100GB - $4.99/month
Dropbox 100GB - $19.99/month
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Until Google drive is the defacto choice for syncing in iOS apps I doubt much will change. There are already cheap options that work with iOS/OS X but aren't baked into iOS apps.

ICloud is a real threat to Dropbox in this area. For cloud storage in general you're right though. Dropbox is too expensive now.

Tefal said:
no offence but the whole "apple users are rich" thing is ********.

Nearly everyone i know with a smart phone has an iphone and they aren't rich at all. iphones are now the mass market not the niche.
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Make not the mistake of confusing those who get an iPhone on a two year contract because it is cheap upfront versus those who have an iPhone, iPad and one (or more) Macs back at home or in the office. Those are the types who are willing to pay Dropbox for storage. They do so because it syncs between iOS, OS X and Windows.

Those types are the affluent ones. Joe Blogs with his iPhone to show off to his mates isn't.
 
Skydrive as it has 25gb. Didn't really see the point in getting Dropbox as it has less storage, unless you cba to mess about inviting friends and stuff.
 
Dropbox because it just works. Not saying others don't, but it integrates with my iOS apps, works on every device I have, and provides me more than enough space.
 
I use SkyDrive as a backup for family photos. They locked my account because I had a few pics of the kids in the bath, their software must have thought I was a paedo or something so they disabled my account.

I had to send a begging email to get access, they they gave me 3 days to remove the offending files.
 
well maybe a little late to the party but....

I use box.net (50gb - good old hp touchpad), skydrive (25gb), google (7gb iirc), amazon (5gb) and I've got dropbox (2gb) too but apart from this they all run via gladinet which creates a virtual drive in explorer.

They all have their pro's and cons but the reason I use gladinet rather than their own apps is that I don't need or want another 'sync' folder app, I want online storage so by using gladinet (free version has a few limitations but nothing major) I can use them like a normal folder (uses webdav essentially) and not have to 'sync' both ways etc.

Amazon's app was the closest to what I wanted but it uses an icon in the taskbar or on the context menu and that just wasn't any good for a new file.

For syncing with my phone I use dropbox although this may change to google seeing as I use android....
 
I have SkyDrive, GoogleDrive and Dropbox.

I only really use Skydrive & Dropbox at the moment so some would probably say having Google a bit redundant, but it's nice knowing it's there if I need it for any reason.

TBH I only use Dropbox because the SkyDrive app isn't ready yet and I push things I want to keep from my phone to it. As soon as SkyDrive is available on Android I'll probably just switch everything over to SkyDrive.
 
I've used dropbox and skydrive for ages.

I have 25 gb free from skydrive and 2.75gb free on dropbox.

I used to be with skydrive when it was just new though, I am pretty sure I used to have 50 gb's (in 2008) on skydrive. Then about 2 years ago (iirc) they lowered it to 25 and now a couple of days ago I just had a message ''click here if you want to keep your 25 gb'' :confused:. EDIT: nvm, it was 5gb at start and increased to 25 :p. My memory is poop.

I like dropbox for the integration with windows explorer and my android phone, and mainly use it for uni stuff. I use skydrive as an image host mostly. Needs proper windows explorer integration, and an android app.

I also have some sort of ''dropbox'' on google, something nothing to do with the ''dropbox'' dropbox ( I had it before I ever heard of dropbox). I used to put some pictures of hotties on google YEARS ago and somehow a ''dropbox'' popped up on my android phone (when I first started it) in the image gallery with all those pictures in it. Again, this is not the ''dropbox'' dropbox but some sort of google integrated thing, as it was there before I downloaded any application.
EDIT: Google pictures thing, which had a ''dropbox'' folder in it.
 
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Mark A said:
Skydrive as it has 25gb. Didn't really see the point in getting Dropbox as it has less storage, unless you cba to mess about inviting friends and stuff.
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Had 25gb. Now you get 5 (I think) but if you had a 25gb account that is grandfathered over to the new Skydrive service.

Vanquish-Storm said:
Lol, i do not see why.

They work fine for me, but everyone opinion counts if you do not like them fair enough sir! :)
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I used to have to support Microsoft Word. That's kind of left a bad taste in my mouth.

No real opinion on Windows Phone actually. Just pulling your leg on that one.
 
I use dropbox. I have 24GB through referrals and other offers. I've set it up to be 'My Documents' folder. It's a great way to keep my work in sync between laptop and pc and I never have to worry about having to use a pen drive.
 
Used Dropbox for years, at 3.8Gb because of that Android photo upload thing a few months ago.

I installed GoogleDrive and want to use it but that faff with them owning whatever goes on there just puts me off.
 
Hey Guys,

Posted this in the enterprise forum but this could be better!

Basically our company works from satellite offices (home addresses) throughout the country, these being area managers, and also CAD designers.

Now all information is stored locally with many emails transmitting the files which we need between us. Mainly between area managers and the CAD operative dealing with the files.

What I would like to do is have the following:

1. Central Backup - We deal with a lot of files and quotations, therefore it would be good to have a online backup.

2. File Sharing - The ability to have us Area Managers be able to find CAD files and drag them into emails etc to send them ourselves to save time.

Does anyone know a good UK based Cloud service which could do the above?

Thanks.
 
Interesting note on Google Drives ownership hoo-harr:

http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/04/google-drive-privacy/
Several publishing outfits raised the alarm about a clause in Google’s terms of service that states Google reserves the right to “use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute” content uploaded to their services. But as The Verge pointed out, other services have similarly expansive, and sometimes more expansive, terms, and those services mean only to use them in service of, well, the services.

AND

Google’s unified privacy policy states that it won’t use your material to do anything other than “provide, maintain, protect and improve [its services], [and] to develop new ones,” and will ask for consent before lending your material to any other uses. But if a file is set as publicly available, that is considered consent for use to promote Google’s services. If a user uploads a photo and sets it as publicly viewable, that picture could end up in an ad for Google.
The good news here is that Google isn’t going to be strewing your personal files all over the Internet as banner ads, as the terms of service alone might suggest, provided the files have some privacy settings, as they do by default — viewable only to friends, for instance. But a public file on any of Google’s services could, in theory, end up in promotional materials. It makes some sense that public content could be used by others, but it’s easy to forget how public “Public” on an Internet service is.
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If i can get Google Drive up and running everywhere i need it too, its goodbye Dropbox!
 
Matutu said:
Hey Guys,

Posted this in the enterprise forum but this could be better!

Basically our company works from satellite offices (home addresses) throughout the country, these being area managers, and also CAD designers.

Now all information is stored locally with many emails transmitting the files which we need between us. Mainly between area managers and the CAD operative dealing with the files.

What I would like to do is have the following:

1. Central Backup - We deal with a lot of files and quotations, therefore it would be good to have a online backup.


2. File Sharing - The ability to have us Area Managers be able to find CAD files and drag them into emails etc to send them ourselves to save time.

Does anyone know a good UK based Cloud service which could do the above?

Thanks.
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Dropbox for Enterprise? Office 365 possibly
 
I use DropBox and Google Drive, allthough I prefer to use DropBox because my Google Docs is a right disorganised mess with random stuff being synced with Google Cloud connect, but I don't think I need Google Cloud Connect anymore if I save those documents in Google Drive folder?
 
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