On Feb 4, 2015, at 9:54 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > What are the advantages of Dropbox and Google Drive over iCloud? My ver. of > Dropbox was 3.03 so before I upgraded I moved everything from Dropbox to > iCloud. Seemed to work fine. I know there must be advantages to the other > programs over iCloud storage, possibly availability of Dropbox from other > programs?
My reasons for using Dropbox and Google Drive are: (1) They’ve been around a lot longer than iCloud. (2) They work on both Linux and OS X, making my stuff portable. (3) They work on older versions of OS X, so my older iMac works with them. You pretty much need Yosemite to use iCloud. (4) Google Drive and Dropbox update a lot faster on local drives — especially Dropbox. I’ve many times saved something to Dropbox on my laptop and within seconds I see it has been updated on the mini. It’s even better with Yosemite because Apple has opened up some APIs in OS X to support such services; e.g., look for the green check marks to see which files are up to date. (5) I’ll wait for a while before I start trusting iCloud Drive. Apple has a dismal track record with Web services, and I’ve been burned several times before. Some of us might remember iDisk from the MobileMe days — shudder …
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