This amount may have seemed generous some years back, but it feels conspicuously low now, particularly as Dropbox was one of the first cloud storage services to market. The next highest is 7 GB offered by OneDrive, less than half of the space provided by Google Drive.Īpple and Amazon both offer users 5 GB of free space with their respective offerings, but Dropbox only offers 2 GB of free storage. Google is way out in front here, offering users 15 GB of space for free when they sign up. There's quite a disparity between how much free space is offered, though. Microsoft OneDrive is available for most operating platformsĪll of the services featured use a freemium model of business as a means of getting users on board. Although iOS and Android dominate the mobile landscape, Windows Phone has recently been confirmed as the fastest growing mobile OS and so, all things considered, that's enough to give OneDrive the edge. More significantly, Microsoft already has a OneDrive app available for Windows Phone, where the others currently do not. Apple is the most restrictive, however, and does not offer an Android application for iCloud, unlike its competitors.Īmazon's Cloud Drive has an app for Kindle and Microsoft has a OneDrive app for Xbox, both of which may be useful for users in those niches, but are unlikely to be deal-breakers for most people. As you'd expect, all provide software that can be installed on Windows and Mac computers to allow for easy upload and syncing of files to the cloud. The first consideration is on what platform each of the offerings are available. It should be noted that there are some other worthy cloud storage services, but this approach means that most people may already have an account for one or more of the services featured. The services featured are the biggest players in the consumer cloud storage market. How do the options stack up against each other though? This article provides a comparison of the main players – Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Apple iCloud and Amazon Cloud Drive.įirst thing's first, a point on how I've chosen the services for comparison. Following Microsoft's recent relaunch of SkyDrive as OneDrive, there is a little more parity and competition at the top of the cloud storage market.
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