What about the most important feature: encryption. Can we use a private key?
Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
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Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
#62eh. 5Gb? Skydrive has like 25
Skydrive is a sad joke that points out how many easy opportunities Microsoft has to leap frog Android and iCloud. They already have a huge cloud platform. They are have millions of Live users. They're finally integrating Live accounts as Windows accounts. They refuse to add dropbox like functionality to SkyDrive to make it possible to just have a set of files synced between all Windows (8, specifically) and WP device…
re: why did they drag their feet so long on integrating 'live' stuff into windows - there was this little outfit called the U.S. government that slapped them with a consent decree that prevented them doing stuff like this.....
Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
#63Sorry for sounding cynical but I am realy curious about the quality of GDrive client apps. The one for Android probably will be good. But I am unsure about the other platforms. Check out Google's "native" GMail app for iOS to see what I mean.
Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
#64OK, so now when they suspend your Google account you also get to experience loosing whatever you had in Google Drive. Just for this I am converting my Dropbox account into one of their paid packages to do my part in ensuring they stick around. One would hope that at one point Google might start to realize that the way they are handling accounts could work against their own interests. I --and I am sure others-- have e…
which free service (or service that pays you money, ala AdSense) has a better approach to customer service? Honestly curious because I hear a lot of complaints about Google, but I have a feeling that Facebook, Bing/Microsoft, etc aren't any better.
PayPal has.
I know, I know, horror stories and everything. And the service or the customer service is not always free but at least you can speak to someone, you can have the process explained, you can appeal etc.
Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
#65Congrats, Google. Only ~2 years after the idea was revolutionary.
Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
#66OK, so now when they suspend your Google account you also get to experience loosing whatever you had in Google Drive. Just for this I am converting my Dropbox account into one of their paid packages to do my part in ensuring they stick around. One would hope that at one point Google might start to realize that the way they are handling accounts could work against their own interests. I --and I am sure others-- have e…
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That's good to know. But, what about the person who doesn't have 500 RSS subscribers to raise hell for them? Yes, it's "free" (I get email, you get to serve me ads) but that doesn't make it right. Email is very personal and to ban someone without notice, without telling them what they did wrong and no clear process for resolution is outrageous.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are huge network effects at play with youtube. People discover new content (related videos) as they browse the site. With Dropbox, it seems, to me, like there are much fewer network effects at play. I don't know what percentage of activity on Dropbox involves sharing between Dropbox customers, but I'd guess its low? I also think its a big deal that I already sign into my Google account on every computer I use;…
I don't know, that's one of the biggest benefits of Dropbox, I tell someone I'll add a shared drive and 9 times out of ten they already have a Dropbox account (in my tech world bubble at least)
And the tenth time you get a referral bonus, and Dropbox gets another user!
Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
#68What specific problem does this fix for the Google ecosystem? This feels very Microsoftian. Very "we must compete in every market" without good reason.
I can see it at an easy and almost transparent way to send large files by mail (in Gmail).
We are in 2012 and it still sucks to send large files. There was a relevant xkcd about it not long ago.
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#69If this thing works properly on Android, I'm dropping Dropbox in a heartbeat.
What doesn't work for you on dropbox for android? I use it all the time and am wondering what sort of things I might be missing.
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#70The article mentions 23 GB of storage upgrades for HTC users. Can I also get that on my old HTC Desire S? Or do I need a new phone for that?