Apple Coalesces Cloud Services with New iCloud Drive and Airdrop Sharing
June 5, 2014
Grazed from CloudComputingPath. Author: Pravin Anchan.
Apple’s iCloud Drive takes Dropbox head on. Launched at WWDC 2014, iCloud Drive resembles Dropbox with a similar file system to store files related to each app separately in the cloud. Such files can be synchronized with Windows, iOS and OSX even if you do not install any iCloud apps. Windows users can access iCloud Drive but Apple is yet to open up APIs for the Windows Phone and Android platform.
However, it is easy to access files using Mac but on other iOS devices you have to fiddle a bit. Apple has not yet created an iCloud Drive app for iOS. This means users must launch an iCloud Drive storage app to access files independently of related applications. iCloud Drive does come as a boon for Apple device users but it may not convert other cloud drive users that offer similar or even more reliable services despite competitively priced offerings of $ 0.99 per month for 20 GB and $ 3.09 per month for 200 GB…
Apple is focused on cloud as can be seen from the fact that it switched off local syncing for iTunes and gave cloud storage an iOS 7 interface followed by iWork for iCloud for collaborative working on documents in addition to tweaking iCloud to address syncing and reliability issues…
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