All I see is that users get a Dropbox app pre-installed, with 25GB of storage.
iCloud gives the user transparent storage of data, apps can use the same APIs on all iOS devices (where is the Android Dropbox API?) to store information there. Backups occur to it trivially.
Photos are automatically synced there. iTunes Match runs off it.
iTunes Match only takes up 2GB of storage for my 15,000 songs (~80GB), because the majority are in the iTunes music store, so this deal would already be worse for me.
iCloud wins because it is backed by the ecosystem. Where is the corresponding ecosystem in the Android world?
How does a bundled Dropbox app + storage bundle compete if it requires the user to manually do file management to ensure "cloud syncing" happens?
iCloud gives the user transparent storage of data, apps can use the same APIs on all iOS devices (where is the Android Dropbox API?) to store information there. Backups occur to it trivially. Photos are automatically synced there. iTunes Match runs off it.
iTunes Match only takes up 2GB of storage for my 15,000 songs (~80GB), because the majority are in the iTunes music store, so this deal would already be worse for me.
iCloud wins because it is backed by the ecosystem. Where is the corresponding ecosystem in the Android world?
How does a bundled Dropbox app + storage bundle compete if it requires the user to manually do file management to ensure "cloud syncing" happens?