Hi Stephen, iCloud Drive is not a Dropbox replacement. I have not moved from Dropbox to iCloud Drive. And I really can't see myself using iCloud Drive in the near future - as I don't use the iOS versions of Pages, Numbers, Keynote.
A couple of quick points: 1. It should be noted that iCloud Drive requires iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, so legacy devices running Mavericks or iOS 7 will not be able to keep their documents up to date with other devices. In addition, once a user has upgraded to iCloud Drive, they cannot downgrade back to Documents in the Cloud. <http://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201385> <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6558264> 2. iCloud Drive Is Not a Dropbox Replacement "The two services work differently. Take sharing, for instance. iCloud is generally all about sharing, but it’s mostly about sharing your stuff with your devices: that is, sharing the same stuff (calendars, music, mail, your budget in Numbers, and your half-finished novel in Pages) among all of your devices. Sharing stuff with other people, even other iCloud users, is not easy, and worse, the options are limited and tightly focused (such as specific photo streams or explicitly shared documents in Pages or Numbers)." Dropbox, on the other hand, lets you share folders and all the documents therein with other Dropbox users - for collaboration with others working on the same project, writing, editing etc. Doing the same thing with iCloud Drive would be impossible. iCloud, unlike Dropbox, doesn’t store previous versions of a file (though some individual apps do), nor does it let you restore deleted files. "Most importantly, though, iCloud Drive is not just a file sharing service. Remember that apps on both Mac and iOS have a lot to say about what you can do with their app libraries. This means that the Finder, in order to create the illusion that iCloud Drive is just another drive with a bunch of folders and yet respect those individual apps’ rights and requirements concerning their own stuff, can behave unpredictably. You can’t tell by sight, for example, which app libraries will accept which files until you try them." Cheers, Ronni > On 13 Dec 2014, at 9:56 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Just interested if anyone has moved from Dropbox to iCloud Drive ? > And if so what you feel are the pros and cons ? > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > Mac by choice > Windows because my employer knew no better
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