{"id":6636,"date":"2013-03-25T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T00:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/mar\/25\/apples-icloud-most-widely-used-cloud-storage-platform-beats-dropbox\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T00:31:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T00:31:09","slug":"apples-icloud-most-widely-used-cloud-storage-platform-beats-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/apples-icloud-most-widely-used-cloud-storage-platform-beats-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s iCloud most widely used cloud storage platform, beats Dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest report published by Strategy Analytics, Apple is moving ahead of competitors Dropbox, Google and Amazon in the battle for cloud storage supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>Over a quarter (27%) of Americans polled said they had used iCloud, compared with 17% for Dropbox, with Amazon Cloud Drive (15%) and Google Drive (10%) trailing behind.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, over half of respondents (55%) had never used a cloud storage service, but 33% had first used one within the past week.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted the key battleground in the cloud storage wars was music, with nine in 10 users storing music, although movie content has the potential to become a huge player in the space.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The growth of video streaming and the desire to access content via a growing range of devices will see services such as the Hollywood-backed digital movie initiative Ultraviolet &ndash; currently used by 4% of Americans &ndash; increase market share,&rdquo; noted Strategy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest report published by Strategy Analytics, Apple is moving ahead of competitors Dropbox, Google and Amazon in the battle for cloud storage supremacy.<br \/>\nOver a quarter (27%) of Americans polled said they had used iCloud, compared with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}