OS X Lion has a hidden 'drop box' for easy file syncing between Macs

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For anyone curious about capacity and pricing versus Dropbox, despite the differences between the services:

iCloud

5GB free, 10GB: $20/yr, 50GB: $100/yr

Dropbox

2GB: free, 50GB: $120/yr, 100GB: $240/yr

I'm curious if Dropbox will proactively adjust their capacity/pricing, or wait to react.

Recent discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3192006 (19 comments)

This is awesome. Just tried it out and it syncs to all my Mac desktops / laptop. However, I'm not sure how to access the content on my mobile devices (iPad and iPhone).

Yikes, I sure wouldn't use an undocumented feature to keep track of anything important.

I'm currently staying away from iCloud syncing as I'm hearing lots of bad stories from people using its _supported_ functionality, so I too definitely won't be using a undocumented feature.

Since Dropbox is both free for 2GB and rock solid why wouldn't you just use that? (And there is an iOS client too.)

Dropbox is a fantastic piece of engineering and I recommend it to everyone. But once you start needing more space, it gets relatively expensive.

I'd love to use Dropbox to replace my current Windows file server which has about 5 gigs of data accessible to about 50 users. But by my math, that would cost at least $5,000 a year.

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