I did a quick blog post with charts and comparisons to not only Dropbox but all the other major players: http://www.sachinagarwal.com/google-drive-charts
Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I don't know if it is, though. I have Google's +20gb plan from an earlier purchase, and it gives me 25gb in Drive too, for $5 per year.
Those old planes will no longer be offered - you'll have to switch to the per month payments when the old subscription.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where do you see that? It says 25GB for $2.49/month - which is still great.
(nevermind: they were apparently just slow to update their purchase page. The base price is now $2.50/mo for 25GB) https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage This is linked from the Google Drive app icon in the OS X system tray as "buy more storage". ''' Purchase additional storage Google storage is shared between Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, and Google Docs. You get extra space in all these services, in addition t…
When I following the link you posted I get the new pricing page. It is just taking them awhile to propagate the stuff to all their servers. Give it another ten-twenty min and try again.
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#144What might go wrong? (This is a test of imagination, not confidence.) Google might finally unleash GDrive and steal a lot of Dropbox's thunder (especially if this takes place before launch.)... From Dropbox's 2007 YC Application, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27532820/app.html I love reading old YC applications. I wonder if someday, they'll become the 21st century version of Harvard Business Review case studies.
Drew Houston definitely knew the threats to DropBox. I'm sure he already has a plan to counter this. He's been ready since 2007.
Of course Google Drive is not a surprise to DropBox but I still feel that a 'One does not simply counter Google' Meme could be appropriate here.
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#145Well, 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 par…
I have been looking (for years) for a "good" online storage/sync solution that allows me to store my documents using my own private key. TrueCrypt etc don't reach the "set it, and forget it" level.
But when you think about how much more expensive storing those documents will be for these companies (as each copy of the same document will be encrypted with a separate private key), and how much value these companies will miss out on because they won't be able to scan our documents, it's understandable why I may never find such a solution.
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#146I'm really happy that they skipped the whole beta/invitation launch.
I'm not! It means hacking there is dead, and the whole company is run by marketing consultants.
Really? It seems to me that the invitation scheme was meant to strum up artificial demand, with the side effect of not letting in a lot of smart people who could do cool things with the product.
The fact that the SDK is available on day one is also pretty great.
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#147Anyone see anything about selective sync in the clients?
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#148This is the big Google Drive we've been anticipating and rumoring about for the past 5 years? Google Docs with a different label and icon?
The icon is uninspired and un-iconic. Somehow this project looks incredibly rushed and simplified to me, but I can't imagine how Google would ever rush anything nor how they could have had too little time.
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#149I'm curious how this will work with google play music. if we can now upload songs through drive instead of that terrible slow desktop uploader, spotify may have just lost a customer...
Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
#150Well, 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 par…
Have you looked at tarsnap?
I'm on Windows :-|