Cloud Drive Wars

At this post, I am going to discuss the five biggest cloud drive services present on this earth provided by the big tech giants. So, just in case if you are deciding whcih way to go, here is Apple iCloud vs Google vs Amazon Cloud Drive vs Windows Live SkyDrive vs Dropbox.


Lets categorize these clouds according to

Space

1st: Google up to 16TB, 20,000 songs 

2nd: Cloud Drive 5-1,000GB 

3rd= Apple iCloud 5GB+, 25,000+ songs 

3rd= Dropbox 100GB 

5th: SkyDrive 25GB

File types

1st= Cloud Drive      Anything

1st= Dropbox          Anything

3rd: SkyDrive          Anything

4th: Google            Anything

5th: Apple iCloud    Anything

 

Ease of use

1st= Apple iCloud    Falling off a log

1st= Dropbox          Genius

3rd: SkyDrive          Slowish but pretty

4th: Cloud Drive      Slow but manageable

5th: Google            Diffuse and slow

 

Devices

1st= Dropbox          Any, lots of clients

1st= Google            Any, some clients

3rd Cloud Drive       Android, PC, Mac & any Flash device

4th skydrive           PC & Mac, some Android & WP7

5th: apple icloud     PC, Mac & iOS

 

Offline

1st: Dropbox                Yes

2nd: Apple iCloud         Yes

3rd= Google                 Yes and no

3rd= SkyDrive               Yes and no

5th: Cloud drive            No

 

Cost

1st: google                Free (for now), then $0.25/GB

2nd: skydrive             Free to 25GB

3rd: Amazon Cloud     Free up to 5GB, then $1/GB

4th: Apple iCloud       Free (except iTunes match)

5th: Dropbox             Free up to 2GB, then $2/GB

 

Avaliblity

1st= Dropbox          Everywhere

1st= SkyDrive          Everywhere

3rd= Cloud Drive      Everywhere (no Player))

3rd= Apple iCloud    Everywhere (not all features)

3rd= Google            Everywhere (Music Beta US-only