

“Why let the enemy get a taste?” he now shrugs cockily.

When Jobs later followed up with a suggestion to meet at Dropbox’s San Francisco office, Houston proposed that they instead meet in Silicon Valley. Courteously, Jobs spent the next half hour waxing on over tea about his return to Apple, and why not to trust investors, as the duo-or more accurately, Houston, who plays Penn to Ferdowsi’s mute Teller-peppered him with questions. “He said we were a feature, not a product,” says Houston. Whoever wins out in the end, one thing is certain: More and more of your "stuff" is nothing more than a ghost in a distant machine.Jobs smiled warmly as he told them he was going after their market. Of course, all of these details are likely to change as these digital titans continue to wage war for your cloud business. So if you have 80 GB of music you want to store on the cloud, you need only purchase the 20-GB package. Plus, all paid options feature unlimited storage space for music. If you're using the free version, MP3s that you purchase through don't count toward your 5-GB limit.


Beyond that, you can shell out $20 a year for 20 GB of storage space, $50 for 50 GB and so forth. The pay scale goes all the way up to $799.99 a month for a whopping 16 TB of cloudy storage space.įinally, there's Amazon Cloud Drive, which unsurprisingly offers - you guessed it - 5 GB of free storage space. Beyond that point, expect to pay $2.49 per month for 25 GB of space and $4.99 per month for 100 GB of space in 2012. Like its competitors, the service offers 5 GB in free storage space. Īnother little tech company you may have heard of, Google, offers Google Drive. Beyond that, you can expect to pay $20 per year for 10 GB, $40 per year for 20 GB and $100 per year for 50 GB. It also provides free use of up to 5 GB of storage space (iTunes media and books don't count). Apple's iCloud, for instance allows iPhone and iPad users to access music, photos, calendars, contacts and documents across multiple platforms. Of course, Dropbox isn't the only player in the cloud computing, file-hosting game.
