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Tiers of a cloud (an old thread revived for 2018)
Imagine for a moment that no iOS apps actually used any cloud services whatsoever, could not and did not. In fact, imagine you didn't even generate any music at all, and probably didn't take any photographs beyond what anyone else with a phone does.
Thus removing that significant bias, now which cloud service would you suggest is the most favoured one to maybe think about considering the possibility of thinking about mulling over the threat of spending actual money in getting reasonable utility out of it (and considering that each year you're going to have to spend it all over again). Which cloud service do you think is good value for money, good usability, good interoperability across device OS types, and good exchange-ability from one person to another.
I know most apps for some inexplicable reason give more preference to Dropbox, but there's others too, so I wanted to clear the slate of any bias and ask which one is preferable on an empirical basis for general life, and not because all your music apps ignore all the others. Is iCloud the obvious one (although it doesn't get as far as being useful to my Nexus 6p Android phone)? Is google drive the ideal one (all my photos are now on google photos, for the free infinite storage of)? Is Box sensible? Is Skydrive or whatever they call it this week (but, you know, it's Microsoft, so, evil)? Is there another that should be taken seriously?
If you take screenshots, which cloud storages scoffs them all up?
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I love the way DropBox works but wish there were other tiers than free or $99 a year. Absolutely loathe iCloud. I'm open to suggestions.
So far iCloud has worked best for me, once I figured it out
What's the secret to iCloud?
Please - enlighten us!
I have paid for subscriptions to Dropbox, iCloud, and Skydrive - and Dropbox is the only truly useful one. iCloud is too limited and unfathomable, it's only real use is for backing up iOS devices, Skydrive change their terms of service at the drop of a hat, whereas Dropbox just seems to work everywhere and is reliable enough for me to store my entire digital life on it, with more than 20 years worth of work stored there, going back to my very first photoshop dabblings from 1994.
I got lucky with Dropbox because I subscribed to the unpopular 200Gb tier a few years ago, so when they increased the storage they gave me 2 terabytes for the price of 1, and grandfathered the plan I was on.
Does anyone use Box? Of all of them, its the one I have the most storage on (ie, not perpetually full without my having ever done anything to fill them up) and that's only because of a phone I bought years ago that gave me something like 50GB free for life. But, of all of them, it's the one I find the most complex and tedious and, well, unsexy.
My needs are probably different than most. I simply bought the 200gb iCloud Plan...synced my desktop and documents folder on my MacBook Pro and iMac. Logic projects sync between devices perfectly.
I shoot video on Canon 70D import into iPad Pro using the SDCard adapter. Arrange into "Album" and the video footage get automatically synced to the iCloud Photo Library where it's later available as source media for Final Cut Pro.
I've experimented with saving GarageBand iOS projects firstly to my "iCloud Desktop" for finishing in Logic. Main issue there is AUv3 plugin compatibility. Perhaps the solution there is to bounce to tracks first.
I save my personal demos to iCloud Music Library so I can listen in car, on iPad etc
I've been using most of iCloud. Calendars, Keychain all seem to work as expected.
I used to favor Google Services but found that it would prefer to link everything to a gmail address, and I've changed email addresses more than initially anticipated over the years so I have quite a collection.
So for now I leverage iCloud as much as I can.
As I’ve re-titled this thread, ’tis the time of year to start thinking about where to put all this crap, again. Any further enlightenments in this past year? Is what the kind contributors above stated still more or less the case, or are there different winners and losers to be alert to?
Bargains (of course — anything with a repeat payment or subscription is by definition not to be trusted : when you inevitably run out of money entirely, how will that impact you when subscriptions are no longer paid?).
I’m not getting very far with both my Seagate personal clown, nor my WD my clown, as they both seem to disappear from my internal networks about half the time, and therefore aren’t to be trusted.
I’m a lot more Apple than I was this time last year (although I haven’t stopped using Linux, it isn’t on a big i7 machine any more, that’s being retired). However, the more apple devices one gets, the more Apple punishes you for doing so by making the small iCloud provision even more useless as it is already full up for the past several years without any intervention by me.
I’m sure the scenario must be different this year, what with iOS11 and macOS 13, and the new Android 8 which about 0.2% of phones have even after all this time, and the new Raspberry pi operating system and whatever else other weird operating systems there are out there.
just got the pun