iCloud Drive = Dropbox killer?

[clay]

Looks like Dropbox will get some stiff competition with this.

[davemchine]

Well it certainly sounds interesting. I'm a huge dropbox user but if this works well I would consider a switch.

[richorlin]

Depends upon pricing.

[bazookaman]

99 cents for 20gb? $3.99 for 200gb?

That sounds A LOT cheap to me.

[jdc]

meh.

I doubt if I could just call up all of my clients and say -- hey, Im switching everything we do over to iCloud! -- and have them say "SURE!!"

And they tell 2 friends, and they tell 2 friends, and so an and so on.

that would be GBs upon GBs of data moving, new shortcuts, new passwords, new everything... no way. Ive got 15 GB of dropbox... for free. Not that hard to do.

for personal storage, maybe?

[vision63]

Google does all of this exact same thing right this second for free. It's not going to kill Dropbox. What's going to hurt Dropbox is them charging for it when Google is giving it all away for little or nothing. There's even a "Photos" app that does everything most people will want to do with their photos. In fact, the unlimited uploading of photos doesn't even count against your "Drive" space.

[vision63]

Also, if you have the Flickr app, every photo you take on your cellie (Apple included I'm sure) is automatically uploaded to your free Terabyte of space.

[RAMd®d]

Pricing is decent.

What Apple is doing is making it tough to leave Apple, if you start there. Why leave the ecosystem when it does it all?

This won't work for a lot of people, particularly those who love to wave the pirate flag. But for a LOT of people, making all this stuff EASY is a big deal.

Most people already using Dropbox will continue to do so. Some will no doubt move to Apple's cloud. Others will start with Apple and never leave.

A choice for everybody.

[Robert M]

RAM,

Agreed. I doubt I'll move from Dropbox anytime soon. It just works and is platform independent. To me, that makes all the difference. iCloud drive? I may use it for inconsequential docs and such but that's about it. Apple is going to have to work _really_ hard to get people to switch to it from other cloud storage services.

I do see people who are already deeply invested in the Apple ecosystem or are new to the Apple ecosystem using it. Not because it's better or worse than its cloud competitors but due to the integration. Once they're set up from the start they may not have reason to use anything else.

Robert

[Zoidberg]

I dunno; Apple really screwed a lot of people over when they said, "Hey, you know iWeb? Yeah, we're not doing that anymore." I don't think I'd trust them for this either. Not on a large scale.