06-03-2014, 03:58 PM
DRR,
The difference between icloud and dropbox is reliability. iCloud doesn't work particularly well. Syncing is still somewhat unreliable. It gets files confused. All under normal day to day usage. Syncing with Dropbox is rock solid reliable, vastly more reliable than iCloud. The only time I get see conflicting files is when I'm restoring a machine from a backup and even then the number of them is very small. Easily found and resolved.
What really bugs the crap out of me is that iCloud Drive is being touted as a new feature. iCloud Drive restores and builds on a feature that was provided to users of MobileMe. I had a cloud drive and desktop access to it under MobileMe. It only worked on the Mac and didn't sync across machines but it was a cloud drive and readily available to me via the desktop or the web.
What is iCloud drive? MobileMe storage with syncing features and apps like Dropbox. Too little, too late. The value it provides remains to be seen but I'm not going to get my hopes up since when it comes to this stuff, Apple has definitely missed the mark one time to many.
Robert
The difference between icloud and dropbox is reliability. iCloud doesn't work particularly well. Syncing is still somewhat unreliable. It gets files confused. All under normal day to day usage. Syncing with Dropbox is rock solid reliable, vastly more reliable than iCloud. The only time I get see conflicting files is when I'm restoring a machine from a backup and even then the number of them is very small. Easily found and resolved.
What really bugs the crap out of me is that iCloud Drive is being touted as a new feature. iCloud Drive restores and builds on a feature that was provided to users of MobileMe. I had a cloud drive and desktop access to it under MobileMe. It only worked on the Mac and didn't sync across machines but it was a cloud drive and readily available to me via the desktop or the web.
What is iCloud drive? MobileMe storage with syncing features and apps like Dropbox. Too little, too late. The value it provides remains to be seen but I'm not going to get my hopes up since when it comes to this stuff, Apple has definitely missed the mark one time to many.
Robert