dropbox vs google drive vs amazon cloud drive vs onedrive

Microsoft’s OneDrive came in at a distant third. In data shared with Fortune, the company revealed that its eight million users prefer Dropbox over Google Drive by a multiple of three. The app’s users connect their accounts to cloud storage services in order to automatically save their work and collaborate with others.

CloudOn, a startup that makes word processing software for mobile devices, has accumulated eight million users since it launched in 2012. One way to learn more about which cloud service users prefer is to through third-party app providers. Many people have accounts with both services, and even those accounts don’t reveal how frequently users are actually storing their files with either service. It’s difficult to discern which company is winning on user numbers alone.

Microsoft says OneDrive has “more than” 250 million users. Google Drive has 240 million users as of September. (Microsoft has offered various cloud storage services since 2008, originally under the name SkyDrive.)ĭropbox claims 300 million users as of May. Though Dropbox is just six years old, it had a four-year jump on Google, which introduced Drive in 2012. But the company in the lead is San Francisco’s Dropbox. Microsoft and Google entered the consumer market with a huge splash, thanks to their massive installed user bases of people using Office and Gmail and Docs, respectively. In a bid for the fickle attention of consumers, a clever maneuver can go a long way. Where the enterprise cloud storage market is a fierce battle among hulking warships-the most firepower wins-the consumer market is much more akin to a skirmish fought among speedboats of varying sizes. It’s the latter market that has proven to be particularly interesting. On the consumer side, Dropbox, Microsoft’s OneDrive (MSFT) and Google’s Drive (GOOG) are competing to store the photos, documents, music, and movies of everyday consumers. On the enterprise side, Box, Amazon Web Services (AMZN), IBM (IBM), and EMC (EMC) are competing for the largest corporate customers.

Dropbox vs google drive vs amazon cloud drive vs onedrive