Google Drive or Dropbox?

[Sharon Godkin]

Can anyone advise which (or another way) I should use to share images/files with non-Apple people?
Thanks!
Sharon

 

[chas_m]

Can anyone advise which (or another way) I should use to share images/files with non-Apple people?
Thanks!
Sharon

I apologise for being so late in answering this -- I didn't see it before today.

I don't think it matters much, to be honest -- Dropbox is the pioneer with easy-to-use links one can send to Apple or non-Apple people without making them attachments in emails, but the free tier for Dropbox is laughably small. Google Drive offers more space, but Google scans everything it receives for data colleciton and keyword research, and shouldn't be considered a safe place to store sensitive materials.

You can also share images from your iCloud Photo Library, and in iOS 12/macOS Mojave this will become even easier (more "dropbox-like" than it is now), but it's not difficult at present. There are myriad other options such as Flickr and Amazon Photo storage, but again these companies do not have the level of strong privacy protection that Apple's iCloud or Microsoft's OneDrive offer. If there are only a few images or small files to share, simply adding them to an email is perfectly acceptable. It's only for large files that one should consider the using cloud-stored-and-linked method.

Cheers
Chas

 

[DaveWT]

On a recent trip I simply used Apple Mail to send photos etc. If you only have a few photos, email works OK but when the file size got larger than email can typically handle, Apple threw up a choice, asking if I wanted to try sending the photos anyway as attachments or alternately use Mail Drop. I chose that option and my friends (both Mac and Windows people) commented on how well it worked.