Apple Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi Introduces Apple's IOS X Yosemite operating system at the World Wide developers conference in San Francisco
Apple vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi introduces Apple's IOS X Yosemite operating system at the World Wide developers conference in San Francisco, California June 2, 2014. Reuters

Apple has announced several new features of its iOS system at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2014. One of these was Mac OS X Yosemite.

Craig Federighi, Apple senior vice president of software engineering, introduced two new cloud-based features: iCloud Drive and Mail Drop, which are parts of OS X update. According to techradar, the two new services challenge Dropbox and Google services.

iCloud Breaks Down Barriers

Federighi said documents that are in the cloud provide a convenient way for working with an app that works across all platforms. These had some limitations but the current problem is being addressed by the company.

With iCloud Drive, users can store all their individual files from OS X and iOS, along with data from applications on Apple's cloud storage service and syncing all files across every Mac. The files stored in iCloud Drive are also available in the user's iOS devices, as it supports Windows through the iCloud client.

Drop it Like It's Mail

Federighi added Apple is "focused on the basics" for the Yosemite Mail app, which includes "reliable syncing, fast switching between mailboxes and quick fetches of a new mail."

The company also "wanted to address a fundamental problem with email" or the limits on the attachment size. Apple's new Mail Drop feature goes over the traditional email attachment size allowing users to send attachments up to 5 GB through iCloud. This feature tears the attachment apart from the message and sends it through iCloud while the users on a different platform would be receiving links through email servers like the usual so that the files can be downloaded.

Both services, iCloud Drive and Mail Drop, would go public as a part of OS X Yosemite and might be available this fall for free.

Apple with its introductory price will offer the first 5 GB of iCloud storage for free, with 20 GB of storage capacity costing $0.99 per month and 200 GB of storage costing $3.99 per month.

In the coming months, tiers of up to 1 TB will also be available to the users.