![]() These mobile apps currently don’t offer editing, but they also don’t support a number of basic features, like uploads from mobile, automatic syncing, the ability to move files or edit their metadata, among other things. That being said, Amazon still has a lot of catching up to do if it wants to truly compete on this front. ![]() But Amazon’s expansion of its Cloud Drive service to mobile could hint that the company has larger ambitions around this service for the long-term. ![]() The new apps themselves are fairly bare bones today in terms of their overall feature set – nothing that should worry productivity software and cloud hosting companies, including Google, Microsoft or Apple – at least, for now. In addition to the file viewing capabilities, you’re able to stream the music and videos you have stored on Cloud Drive, but it’s not an elegant interface for this – you’d be better off using the Prime Music app for playing your songs. Or you can grab a link to a file if you want to share it publicly, like posting it on social media, for example. The Cloud Drive app also lets you share the files as links and attachments through emails and messages. You’re not able to edit these files, however. From these folders, you’re able to drill down and then open and view supported files – documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and photos. The apps will reflect the folder set up you have established on Cloud Drive, which may include folders like “Pictures,” “Videos,” or “My Send-to-Kindle Docs,” among others. With the new, standalone Cloud Drive apps, though, the focus is more on productivity. (Cloud Player has since been rebranded Prime Music and now includes a Pandora-like streaming service in addition to its Cloud Drive-powered streaming functions). It also used to offer Amazon Cloud Player, a free app for streaming your music hosted on its Cloud Drive service. That app is available on iOS and Android, and the service is also built into Amazon’s Fire Phone. For example, Amazon today has Cloud Drive Photos, which works to automatically upload your smartphone’s photos into Cloud Drive, as well as organize them. Amazon has yet to make a formal announcement about their debut.Īmazon already offers desktop (Mac and PC) apps for Cloud Drive, but on mobile, it instead introduced apps for working with specific aspects of its cloud service. The Android versions of the apps arrived in their respective stores in late June, but the iOS version just went live over the holiday weekend here in the U.S. The apps offer a simplified folder list and a way to view and share files, as well as play the music and videos you have stored on Cloud Drive. Amazon has quietly expanded its Cloud Drive service – a competitor to Dropbox, Google Drive and other online file hosting services – to mobile platforms, with the release of dedicated apps on iTunes, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore.
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