I did quite a bit of research into other options before and while using Dropbox: Tried GDrive and found the online interface (GDocs) not suitable for the amount of content I have, tried SkyDrive when it was still Live Mesh and had tons of problems with it (hour-long delays when syncing). At one point I tried a peer-to-peer type system (I remember their logo being red, forgot the name) and it was Java based which made it annoying to me. And I tried a system where files were encrypted before transfer (some Dutch company, again forgot the name) and the problem with that was that it was way too slow at dealing with all my files.
Do you encrypt your files? Most of my sensitive documents are in PDF format, so I am adding passwords to them; but not sure if there is a better solution with Dropbox.
edit: Just remembered, there is one encrypted file in my Dropbox, but that also only exists encrypted on my computer.
Dropbox is still the best in terms of experience and support in other apps. Price is quickly becoming not competitive.
Google Drive was crashing with folders with largish numbers of files in it (on OSX) so I couldn't test much after signing up and dropped it. It seemed fine, but Dropbox has more integration points.
Amazon Cloud was pretty useless until this announcement. But their cloud player is pretty awesome and if you sign up for their cloud drive, you get the cloud player premium.
Really, if Dropbox doesn't get something moving price-wise, this could be the end. But man, I love me some dropbox. It's just $$$$.
Right now it's not 100% cloud-ified, but my current favorite is AeroFS for syncing between machines. It works quite well. Here, the security risk is that someone gains access to your account and syncs all of your files to their system. I'm planning to work around the lack of a web client by installing a WebDAV server for myself, when I finally get around to it.
1) After a week of repeated attempts, I gave up trying to get video from Dropbox to Drive. Maybe the files were too large?
2) Also, syncs are faster and more seamless across devices with Dropbox. There are noticeable lags for most syncs with Drive, even small, single files.
3) Event when Drive thinks it has synced, it hasn't and I have to restart the app.
There are other benefits to Drive, but I never had any sync issues with Dropbox.
The syncing just isn't where Dropbox is right now and not where I need it to be. I would oftentimes get errors for small files that Google Drive couldn't sync but Drive would provide few cryptic descriptions as to why. I've switched back to Dropbox because I'm running multiple OSes and environments and I take their pricing as the cost of being able to use something that just works.
I'd be interested in a backup service directly from Amazon though...