I have to say, Amazon has certainly done a great job of generating publicity for Cloud Drive. I think I heard it mentioned on at least three different NPR news programs today, and there was nary a mention of similar, pre-existing services from other companies, at least one of which people might have heard of.\n\nI almost included Google Docs in this table, but decided against it. Google Docs does let you store documents, but it's hardly the main feature.\n
\n\n\n | \nCloud Drive | \nDropBox | \nMobileMe | \n
\n\n Price | \n5GB Free, More from $20/20GB p.a. | \n2GB Free, $100/50GB p.a. $200/100GB p.a. | \n$100/20GB p.a. | \n
\n\n Version Control | \nUndelete | \n30d (free) or unlimited (paid) | \n | \n
\n\n Streaming | \nMP3 | \n | \nVideo | \n
\n\n Syncing | \n | \nYes (almost anything) | \nYes (iOS and Mac) | \n
\n\n API | \n | \nYes (and lots of apps support it already) | \n | \n
\n\n Freebies | \nMore free space for buying stuff from Amazon | \nMore free space for referrals | \n | \n
\n\n Sharing | \n | \nFine-grained | \nStuff can be public or not. | \n
\n\n Web UI | \nThe only UI | \nYes | \nYes and you can build out a website | \n
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\nIt's worth noting that if you click a media file in DropBox then it will play perfectly well if the format is supported by your browser. Since most browsers support MP3 this means that, aside from MP3 playlist support, DropBox is about as good a media player as Cloud Player and better for sharing media (since it has fine-grained sharing functionality).\n\nIn summary, aside from the price-per-GB DropBox is simply better in every important way than Cloud Drive. Of course DropBox is a tiny startup (although it's definitely gone viral in Academic and hacker circles) and Cloud Drive is backed by Amazon.\n\nIf I've sold you on DropBox you can use this link to get an account and give me more storage!\n\nUpdate: according to a comment on this silly piece (it's from ZDNet so silliness is almost mandatory) I should have mentioned Ubuntu One, which is somewhere between Cloud Drive and DropBox (costs more per GB than Cloud Drive, but its music player works in more places and allows sharing).","$updatedAt":"2024-06-05T09:10:30.279+00:00",path:"cloud-drive-vs-dropbox-vs-mobileme",_created:"2024-07-09T20:30:20.573Z",id:"3962",_modified:"2024-07-09T20:30:20.573Z","$id":"3962",_path:"post/path=cloud-drive-vs-dropbox-vs-mobileme"}}