Cloud storage Contention

This is not a competition with too much attention, because Apple is just starting its cloud storage service, and Amazon's flexible Computing Cloud (EC2) service has been running for years, and cloud drives have been around for months.

Let's start with basic services: icloud and Amazon Cloud drives provide 5GB of free storage files, audio and video files, and other media services for users. If you want to store more data in the cloud, you have to pay an extra fee. In this respect, Amazon Cloud drives are more favorable because you basically pay 1 dollars a month for each gigabyte. In other words, you pay 20 dollars a month, get 20GB of storage space, pay 50 yuan a month, get 50GB and so on. And Apple's extra pay looks less generous: $20 trillion/15GB storage space, $40 trillion/20gb,100 dollar/50GB.

These two services are provided to users with unlimited cloud storage through their respective music stores. So, if you buy music through Icoud, you need to store it on icloud, and you can put the music on iOS based devices. Similarly, all MP3 purchased through the Amazon Store can be accessed free of charge from any personal computer. In this case, Apple is better than Amazon because it provides software program itunes Match, a set of services that let itunes scan the computer's music database (itunes Library), and not just scan, after scanning, if the itunes cloud database has a corresponding, will automatically appear in the IOS side of ITunes, if there is no corresponding to the song, it will automatically sync uploaded to the idevices, the entire service price of 24.99 dollars for the annual fee.

In terms of device integration, Apple has a certain advantage because icloud can be preloaded into IOS 5 devices, which means that you sync data with Iphone,ipad,ipod or Mac laptops. On Amazon, the truly fully integrated cloud drive is the Kindle Fire. Although you can access the cloud drive from any computer by using the Web.

For the time being, we set the winner of the competition to Amazon. Its price advantage and extensive cloud-based service experience make its advantages more obvious. But the lesson from the 10-year development of science and technology is that Apple will never disappoint. So this battle will take a while to proclaim a true victor.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)