Thanks so much Lee, all great reasons. John
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 4, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 … > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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