09-11-2014, 01:54 PM
RAMd®d wrote:
Is $20/T a good price? It seems expensive. But that's my "The Watch should be $149 not $349" mode, using no context and having limited perspective.
It's actually twice as expensive as Dropbox and Google Drive, which I would call the two main competitors. However for some context, Dropbox only reduced prices/upped storage a couple weeks ago, most likely as a pre-emptive strike against the iCloud Drive launch.
Having said that - deciding on an online cloud storage solution encompasses much more than simple price per gigabyte. They each have their own relative strengths and weaknesses and the question is really which works best for your situation and your workflow.
This is in large part because past a certain point, storage is just storage. The differentiator between these 3 main products is, (in my eyes), the integration with other elements and applications. As an example, if you use gmail and google docs, Google Drive offers a much better level of integration with these services than iCloud or Dropbox. Similarly, if you're heavily invested in the apple ecosystem, iCloud Drive has benefits beyond simple storage. Dropbox is pervasive these days, they're practically the "standard" for cloud storage so any applications in the future, will likely have integrated dropbox support.
Google Drive is actually $9.99/month per TB
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en
As is Dropbox (Pro):
https://www.dropbox.com/plans