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Apple Announces 'iCloud Drive' and 'Mail Drop' Features for OS X Yosemite
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So you can afford a premium priced product, but you're not willing to pay $1 a month for 20GB of storage?
Well, let's see where we can shave that dollar off from your monthly spends...
For it to be really *useful* we (I) need multiple terabytes of space - let's say 5TB to start. What will that cost me? Afraid to ask :/
I never really liked Keynotes and, dare I say it, even Steve Job's. I usually just stop checking live feeds or live video after a few minutes. Not this time, but had to reluctantly quit for a team meeting.
Archive them?
Deleting the trash can is to save space.
Simply move your messages or archive them if you don't want them deleted.
Deleting the trash can is to save space.
Simply move your messages or archive them if you don't want them deleted.
Apple does let you buy additional storage beyond 200GB, all the way to 1TB (Apple hasn't yet announced pricing beyond 200GB, however).
Is it a setting? I just looked and I have emails from 2012 in my iCloud email.
I really like this a lot, and but do you need the new OS for iCloud drive?
Humm I didn't think of that...And Ive just gone about changing all my emails back to gmail!
After the Dropbox issues of late, my new golden rule with cloud services is not to trust any service that wants me as a user but has no plan to make me a customer.
So Google's and Apple's numbers seem right. Certainly Apple is the upper end of price and google's at the upper end of free capacity that maybe I wouldn't upgrade to being a customer.
He was a lot of fun. It was a great presentation today.
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I need to see it implemented. I live and die by Dropbox, it has never let me down, no matter what I throw at it.
I don't need Dropbox that badly, so if iCloud drive works like Dropbox then I'm switching. The same functionality built into the OS will be so much better. But for starters this must have offline accessibility to files like Dropbox.
Looks like Google wins for price to storage ratio. Dropbox kinda sucks with their pricing structure (although you can get free storage). Hopefully they lower them soon.
You're paying for the Apple design, OS X, and the
on it. Unless there's something magical about iCloud Drive, storage is storage. Nothing premium about it.At first glance it would look like Google has the better pricing. Then I remembered that they will scan everything and sell you to advertisers so they bombard you with adds. I use iCloud and imatch now and like the service. I drive seems to improve on that so I am liking it.
The real question is how they might integrate this into TimeMachine. I have one now at home as my router and it backs up all my devises locally. It would be awesome to have complete integration so that it would also backup to iCloud drive in an intelligent way so that I have both local and offsite backups without having to think about it.
And sharing folders and stuff like that. I collaborate on projects with lots of people and Dropbox has been amazing for me. iCloud would have to be very convincing.
when i go to the site, it says 15gb.
trying to look into Copy.com but they don't show a lot...say stuff but looks like i need to register to see more.
Do you mean backing up iPhoto to dropbox? I am a little confused on the statement that I have in bold above. Just want to make sure I am understanding the statement. Thanks.
I like the sound of this.
I can see in the near future a configuration and document back up solution for simple mac migration rather than time machine. As iTunes Match, photo stream, and App Store handles most of the media and applications, it seems plausible.
Much like iOS device restore, which I've used and am happy with.
It's probably in 10.11 Niagra
I can see in the near future a configuration and document back up solution for simple mac migration rather than time machine. As iTunes Match, photo stream, and App Store handles most of the media and applications, it seems plausible.
Much like iOS device restore, which I've used and am happy with.
It's probably in 10.11 Niagra
The main problem with solutions other than Dropbox and iCloud (e.g., Box, Copy.com,Evernote, Google Drive, Microsoft Cloud Drive) is lackluster support from 3rd party iOS apps. To me, it really doesn't matter how much storage these cloud services offer if apps that I prefer to use don't support them.
Having said that, it is very clear that Dropbox's pricing is dramatically higher than its peers. Dropbox's CEO commented last week at Re/code that won't be cutting price nor increase storage capacity, which sounds like a big gamble.
i use all 3 but how good are google and icloud at recovering deleted documents? what about recovering changes?
dropbox saves every version of a change so you can recover to a previous version easily
The answer is no you can't backup iPhoto with Dropbox and multiple computers.
You can use a Dropbox folder to hold your iPhoto container (file) but what is the point? No other computer can use it without corrupting it.
The problem isn't Dropbox but the way Apple implements containers.
So technically, you can backup ONE iPhoto container to Dropbox. However, it real world use you can't.
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I think Dropbox will cease to exist in a few years.
If you are in the Google ecosystem, Google Drive is superior.
If you are in the Microsoft ecosystem, OneDrive is superior.
After the release of the new OS X
If you are in the Apple ecosystem, iCloud Drive is superior.
All Dropbox will have going for it is cross platform support. And all the above offer some cross platform features.