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If not, would anyone like to make one? That seems like a convenient option for users, not to mention the bandwidth savings.
Wow it's cheap, I was looking at it thinking $5 per month for 20gb, that's pretty competitive. Then I saw it was $5 per year! I guess they have the infrastructure to do this and still make profit.
Where do you see that? It says 25GB for $2.49/month - which is still great.
Haven't seen anything on the key question here for me ... how are they monetizing this? I'd rather not upload a ton of personal data to Google until I know how they're making money off of it. (Do they plan to integrate your documents into your search results?)
"Drive is also an open platform" Working with select third-party developers does not make something an open platform. A documented API makes something an open platform. Even a command-line client for a popular web-server operating system makes something an open platform. Google Drive is not an open platform yet.
"Drive is also an open platform" Working with select third-party developers does not make something an open platform. A documented API makes something an open platform. Even a command-line client for a popular web-server operating system makes something an open platform. Google Drive is not an open platform yet.
Wow it's cheap, I was looking at it thinking $5 per month for 20gb, that's pretty competitive. Then I saw it was $5 per year! I guess they have the infrastructure to do this and still make profit.
Where do you see that? It says 25GB for $2.49/month - which is still great.
no linux platform "coming soon" - too bad
as always :) they are first going after the big fish. But they will come. I'm sure. Chrome, Google Talk for Gmail everything follows this path too.