03-01-2025, 07:47 PM
1. Yes, you can drag-drop files to move them into a folder under the iCloud Drive. And there are iCloud tools for Windows users.
2. The main downside is that iCloud is slow, intermittently fails to connect/upload/download, can't be uniquely configured to keep some stuff on your drive and other stuff in the cloud, and like all Apple cloud services is wholly unreliable. Additionally, Dropbox has lots of options for sharing and editing files and has a full-featured app and web-interface for previewing and even editing files while iCloud has limited sharing features that are so clunky as to be useless if you're not sharing to someone on your own family plan.
3. The larger downside is that you get no tech support for when you double-click on a file and it doesn't download from iCloud and open. But you get pretty good support for technical problems when you have a paid Dropbox plan.
2. The main downside is that iCloud is slow, intermittently fails to connect/upload/download, can't be uniquely configured to keep some stuff on your drive and other stuff in the cloud, and like all Apple cloud services is wholly unreliable. Additionally, Dropbox has lots of options for sharing and editing files and has a full-featured app and web-interface for previewing and even editing files while iCloud has limited sharing features that are so clunky as to be useless if you're not sharing to someone on your own family plan.
3. The larger downside is that you get no tech support for when you double-click on a file and it doesn't download from iCloud and open. But you get pretty good support for technical problems when you have a paid Dropbox plan.