However, as soon as you venture outside a walled garden, whether that means Gmail or Microsoft Office, it’s hard to stick to just one provider, as I found.

If you rely entirely on Apple products, you may be able to get away with iCloud Drive, and the same goes for Google with Google Drive and Microsoft with OneDrive. Cloud storage has become yet another weapon in the ecosystem wars. It might seem as though you could pick one cloud storage provider and stick with it, but I haven’t found it to be that easy. Here’s an attempt to bring those who don’t pay close attention to the field up to date. With the rise of Apple’s iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Microsoft’s OneDrive, the enterprise-focused Box, and a host of competitors, it has become near-impossible to keep track of everything that affects regular users of cloud storage services.

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