The competition between cloud storage is becoming white-hot

With the official release of Microsoft SkyDrive for Ipad/os X, the competition between the cloud storage field is becoming more and more intense. Currently, the main cloud storage service providers in the market are mainly divided into dropbox,skydrive and Apple's icloud three, in addition to the rumored Google Drive. Then the consumer how to choose, small make bold here to this three cloud storage service provider to do a brief analysis, hope to be able to help everybody.

Dropbox

Dropbox

As the early launch of cloud storage services vendors, Dropbox products have done relatively mature, Dropbox users can initially have 2GB of free storage space, then you can invite friends or pay the way to increase space. In the face of enterprise users, Dropbox also provides up to 1000 GB of cloud storage space scenarios. In addition, Dropbox's product line is also the most complete, its clients all over the Windows,mac OS X,linux, as well as iOS (ipad and iphone), Android, BlackBerry and other platforms. Dropbox's ease of use is also commendable, and there are a lot of Dropbox fans in the country.

Skydrive

Skydrive

Skydrive is Microsoft's flagship products in the cloud storage field, which was released earlier today Ipad/os x version. Previously, Microsoft had provided up to 25GB of storage space for each SkyDrive user, but unfortunately, now SkyDrive's free space has dropped to 7GB, but even so, It provides 3.5 times times more space than Dropbox, which is good news for users who need large capacity for free space.

On the other hand, due to Microsoft's consistent characteristics, SkyDrive with other Microsoft products are very close, users through the Windows Live ID landing skydrive,hotmail and MSN can easily access. You can also access or synchronize content on the cloud via Windows Phone or client applications on iOS.

ICloud

ICloud

In June 2011, Jobs unveiled icloud to the public at the annual WWDC conference. icloud, for Apple users, is indeed a handy tool for seamlessly synchronizing content in iOS devices, and Apple has integrated icloud in each of its newly sold iOS devices. The huge impact of Apple's brand has also accumulated a lot of icloud users.

On the storage side, Apple provides 5GB of free storage space for iOS users, and users can get extra 50GB storage at the cost of $100/640 yuan a year.

Google Drive

Google Drive

The current information about Google Drive is still circulating, rumored to have 5GB of free storage space, can provide similar functions with icloud, can be closely linked with the Android phone, but all the details of confidence will need to wait until Google has its official release to be seen.

Summary: From the above situation, SkyDrive is a relatively good choice, unfortunately SkyDrive currently does not provide Android and BlackBerry clients, the two platform users better choice is now only Dropbox. For Apple users, icloud is the same, but if the use of Cross-platform file storage and synchronization, it is still recommended to register a SkyDrive account.

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)