Google Drive: Is the Dropbox Party Over?
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Google Drive: Is the Dropbox Party Over?
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#2i remember hearing the same argument when google made google videos to compete with youtube, and we all know how that ended. That said, there were social and community aspects there that don't apply here, and google's cheaper storage prices and larger feature set may give it a leg up.
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#3I hope they'll give the option to do your own encryption, too.
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#4 Google Drive: $5 per year per 20 GB.
Dropbox Pro 50 plan, $10 per month for 50 GB
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#5i remember hearing the same argument when google made google videos to compete with youtube, and we all know how that ended. That said, there were social and community aspects there that don't apply here, and google's cheaper storage prices and larger feature set may give it a leg up.
It's dangerous for Dropbox because GDrive will be automatically integrated into all Google services. I can access it anywhere from any Google service or device. No need to think about uploading, downloading, copying, pasting--it's just there. I don't use GDocs because it's the best.
I use it because all my friends use Gmail and sharing docs with them is super easy. I see GDrive having the same benefits. Sharing on Dropbox still isn't as easy as it should be. I've been trying to convince my girlfriend to sign up for a Dropbox accounts since we started dating, but no luck. With Gdrive, she will never need to.
That said, success is still not guaranteed. MS has had SkyDrive for years and I have no idea what the market penetration numbers are, but I'm sure they aren't good. Hotmail is no Gmail. I had no problems convincing a bunch of people to switch to Gmail, but only got one person to sign up for Dropbox.
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#6Google Drive: $5 per year per 20 GB. Dropbox Pro 50 plan, $10 per month for 50 GB "the price of Google Drive looks dirt cheap." wait what?
At those rates, Google's service for 100GB for a year would be $25. Dropbox's would be $240. I think I'd call a little under 10.5% the cost "dirt cheap", but I guess that's subjective.
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#7Google Drive: $5 per year per 20 GB. Dropbox Pro 50 plan, $10 per month for 50 GB "the price of Google Drive looks dirt cheap." wait what?
Google Drive is $5 per 20GB per year. I'd say that's a pretty significant difference.
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#8i remember hearing the same argument when google made google videos to compete with youtube, and we all know how that ended. That said, there were social and community aspects there that don't apply here, and google's cheaper storage prices and larger feature set may give it a leg up.
It's dangerous for Dropbox because GDrive will be automatically integrated into all Google services. I can access it anywhere from any Google service or device. No need to think about uploading, downloading, copying, pasting--it's just there. I don't use GDocs because it's the best. I use it because all my friends use Gmail and sharing docs with them is super easy. I see GDrive having the same benefits. Sharing on Dr…
Can it be scripted though? I want to set up a cron task to gzip a directory and send it to GDrive every night.
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#9Google Drive: $5 per year per 20 GB. Dropbox Pro 50 plan, $10 per month for 50 GB "the price of Google Drive looks dirt cheap." wait what?
In fairness, when you compare 2 things, you should use the same units, and they didn't. They should have extended Dropbox's plan to the year to show the difference.
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#10i remember hearing the same argument when google made google videos to compete with youtube, and we all know how that ended. That said, there were social and community aspects there that don't apply here, and google's cheaper storage prices and larger feature set may give it a leg up.
It ended with Google buying YouTube.
Do you think they're going to buy DropBox too?