Apple Named King of Cloud Computing
March 23, 2013
Grazed from Motley Fool. Author: Tim Beyers.
When it comes to storing most of our online entertainment, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) and its Drive file system isn’t top dog. Neither is Microsoft‘s (NASDAQ: MSFT ) SkyDrive or Amazon.com‘s (NASDAQ: AMZN ) Cloud Drive. The winner? Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) , says a new report from Strategy Analytics.
The survey asked respondents which digital locker services they use to store music or video. iCloud and iTunes topped the list with 27% using Apple’s services. Surprisingly, Dropbox ranked second, two percentage points ahead of Cloud Drive…
Source: Strategy Analytics.
Whether or not this is the first time anyone’s taken a serious look at the "entertainment cloud," I think it’s fair to say that — up to this point — we’ve largely overlooked Apple’s growing presence online. How we could not? We’re too busy covering efforts by Google and Microsoft to win users to their respective cloud productivity suites…
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