Re: getting a new iPhone, some help needed, please
Can you use iCloud to transfer music? Good question! I think the answer is that you can, but that you will need a third-party app to actually play the media files (like VLC, for example). Dropbox probably has the edge here because it has some internal viewers of its own, and many apps already know how to get to Dropbox directly (because of Apple's early refusal to be cool, like Dropbox, with the result that everybody just used Dropbox as the virtual file system of choice). Now any app that has the iCloud entitlement can act as the bearer for remotely-stored content, not only iCloud itself, through what are known as "Document providers". Hence cloud services are now quite equal.
But that leads nicely to the second question: how much storage? 5 GB, for free, to be shared among all your iCloud uses. That is how much space you would have for such purposes. It might actually be worthwhile paying for more storage, from either iCloud or Dropbox, if you need space for file storage. Also notable, Apple has a service (called iTunes Match) that lets you upload your music specifically, sort of like Google Music, and that's a flat-rate product with the added bonus that it'll upgrade any songs you already have to Apple's music catalog rips, i.e. 256 Kb AAC. Major downside, for those it may concern: requires iTunes for the upload.
One more thing: Dropbox operates online by default, that is you specifically mark things as offline if you want them. iCloud is the reverse, everything syncs by default, exactly like the Dropbox desktop client does (and, in fact, iCloud on Windows and Mac too).
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