Funny thing about this cloud service trend; it's designed to let us upload and access data anywhere, but not all cloud storage providers make their services easily available on all mobile platforms. Microsoft's OneDrive has previously been supported only on Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone, but with today's release of Connect to Microsoft OneDrive, BlackBerry 10 users can store their cloud apps as reliably as people on other platforms.
Connect to Microsoft OneDrive is built by BlackBerry rather than Microsoft, so it's not a client in the traditional sense as seen on other platforms. Much like the Dropbox connection BlackBerry baked into BB10, it's designed to offer an integrated function that can be used to browse through files or upload content to OneDrive. Users can upload, open, or edit documents through the connection and have changes automatically saved to cloud. Photos and videos taken on a BlackBerry 10 device are automatically uploaded so they can be accessed on a desktop or stored as a backup.
The downside to this approach is that you might not get as equal an experience compared to what companies are able to create when they handle the app process. The upside is that it's a better alternative than nothing for people who use OneDrive, and as we've seen with Dropbox, you're not missing out on that much by using an app built by BlackBerry. The core functions of cloud uploading and downloading are still present, and you're able to get a free 7GB of storage when signing up.
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