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While perusing the headlines and posts detailing today's release of Google Drive, Google's cloud-based storage service, many compare the service the another popular cloud storage service, Dropbox. Google drive "will present a big threat to dropbox" writes Gizmodo's Leslie Horn contradicting The Next Web's headline "Don't Call it a Dropbox Killer." All that death talk is just punditry. Cloud storage technology probably can't kill, anyway. But, Drive provides an alternative, even providing some things Dropbox does not. For those looking to maybe switch over or get into the cloud storage game, we've broken down the key differences between the two services:
Basic Functionality
Dropbox: From the Dropbox site: "Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. " And that's basically it, as the video on the site explains. The service allows users to store stuff on the cloud (ie. the interwebs) meaning access anywhere. Also, the service provides easy sharing between Dropboxers.
Google Drive: Same idea, Google Drive allows users to store their stuff in the cloud, meaning they can get it anywhere and share it with other Google Drive users across the Internet. A big bonus of a service like this is it allows for sharing of a lot of stuff a lot easier than email. From the Google promotional video:"Forget files being too big to e-mail." Dropbox works like that, too, of course. But coming from our email service, it sounds nicer.