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Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by huhtenberg »

Well, this pretty much exhausts the pool of people who don't care for the data privacy. On the plus side, those who do want privacy are still waiting for a proper solution, and it is an opportunity.

(edit) It is really shocking how absolutely mind-bogglingly ignorant people are when it comes to their data privacy matters. How could any business person in a sane state of mind choose to share its data with some 3rd party company. Business plans, emails, everything. And Google actively promoting such behavior and endorsing ignorance - this goes well beyond "evil." It is one of the greatest disservices to the state of the digital culture of our times. So, yeah, great to see more of the same. Yay to the gDrive!

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Post by cryptoz »

emp_ wrote: post #12

I think this shows a massive change in direction with Google in the last years, when GMail was introduced it came with that "Holy shit that is a lot of space" while every other webmail was offering 10-500MB accounts, they came with BOOM! 5GB and growing. Now they are simply matching the competition with the same features with the "..but it's from Google" attached to it, which is similar to what Microsoft did with Hot…

> every other webmail was offering 10-500MB accounts, they came with BOOM! 5GB and growing.

At the time, I think Hotmail offered 2MB (free). Google upped the game to 1GB.

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Post by skystorm »

rkudeshi wrote: post #16
sakai wrote: post #8

In my mind, two factor authentification is a killer feature here. Now if they can also have password-protected link sharing, this will be a much better choice for small businesses or privacy-minded individuals.

Do they actually have 2-factor authentication, though? The French translation seemed to include it, but I don't see any mention of it here. Edit: Yep, it does have it. Interesting that they don't mention it anywhere in the blog post or on the official site - you'd think it'd be a selling point compared to Dropbox.

It's tied to your Google account, for which you can enable 2-factor auth.

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Post by TomatoTomato »

TomGullen wrote: post #15
cmer wrote: post #7

Very aggressive pricing! Dropbox is 4 times more expensive for 100 GB. $5/mo vs $20. Will be interesting to see how Dropbox reacts to that.

80GB on Drive is $1.60 a month ($20 a year). DropBox 100GB is $20 a month!

That is incorrect, you are looking at the old Google account storage costs. These are different and may supersede the old pricing.

You can get started with 5GB of storage for free—that’s enough to store the high-res photos of your trip to the Mt. Everest, scanned copies of your grandparents’ love letters or a career’s worth of business proposals, and still have space for the novel you’re working on. You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month. When you upgrade to a paid account, your Gmail account storage will also expand to 25GB.

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Post by ajross »

sakai wrote: post #8

In my mind, two factor authentification is a killer feature here. Now if they can also have password-protected link sharing, this will be a much better choice for small businesses or privacy-minded individuals.

Obviously two-factor is good (though strong passwords and discipline are really no worse for personal use). But I don't think "privacy-minded individuals" are going to be heavy users of cloud storage.

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by nigelk »

rkudeshi wrote: post #16
sakai wrote: post #8

In my mind, two factor authentification is a killer feature here. Now if they can also have password-protected link sharing, this will be a much better choice for small businesses or privacy-minded individuals.

Do they actually have 2-factor authentication, though? The French translation seemed to include it, but I don't see any mention of it here. Edit: Yep, it does have it. Interesting that they don't mention it anywhere in the blog post or on the official site - you'd think it'd be a selling point compared to Dropbox.

If you've got 2-factor set up on your Google account, you'll get prompted for it when you set up Google Drive.
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