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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 amirmc »

rkudeshi wrote: post #137
amirmc wrote: post #108

Why do people here expect Dropbox to 'respond'? As far as I'm aware, their growth (primarily) comes from people inviting each-other and they're obviously device/OS agnostic. Yes, the pricing is way different but we shouldn't assume that's the major driver for most people.

Simple: Everybody and their mother already has a Google account. It's a lot easier to tell someone to use Google Drive instead of creating an account on Dropbox and installing their software and going through the whole rigamarole. Unlike SkyDrive et al, Drive is aiming right at the throat of Dropbox and Google has the money to make sure it succeeds (see G+). Dropbox doesn't have to compete on price (I don't think it'…

Applying the principle of anecdote==fact, I have to disagree with the first point. I tried for ages to get my parents to use Gmail instead of Hotmail and failed miserably. Drive would actually be great for them when sharing photos.

Agree with your other points though. The OCR and search sound like great things so yes, you've convinced me that Dropbox has to compete on features somehow.

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Post by its_so_on »

Lewisham wrote: post #138
its_so_on wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not! It means hacking there is dead, and the whole company is run by marketing consultants.

What on earth are you talking about? Google's infrastructure is so large it can handle the same sort of influx that Gmail would have generated, whereas back then they couldn't. Why on earth does that mean the company is run by marketing consultants?

the same reason 20% time is dead and requires management approval. do I really have to spell it out? (google maps started as an engineer fooling around with ajax).

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by daenz »

primigenus wrote: post #35

Here's the most important paragraph in the blog post that most people will gloss over (because Google glossed over it): "Drive is built to work seamlessly with your overall Google experience. You can attach photos from Drive to posts in Google+, and soon you’ll be able to attach stuff from Drive directly to emails in Gmail. Drive is also an open platform, so we’re working with many third-party developers so you can d…

> Basically, you register your app against certain mime types, and then when users install your app into Chrome, they can now open those file types directly from Drive using your app, seamlessly.

It took a minute for it to hit me how brilliant that is. I'm really interested if webgl developers will do anything interesting with this.

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Post by driverdan »

Absolutely no mention of how files are protected. Is encryption used? Is it technically possible for a Google employee with proper access to view your files (with private key encryption it'd be impossible)? Should we assume this is this on par with Gmail email attachments (viewable by certain employees)?

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by TomGullen »

TomatoTomato wrote: post #28
TomGullen wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I went to the drive page, it said sign up top right and I clicked it and it quoted the extremely cheap yearly figures. The button is no longer there, I guess they are amending it as we speak.

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Post by its_so_on »

pazimzadeh wrote: post #146
its_so_on wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

you're free to come to your own conclusion. see my response to your sister post.

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by antihero »

trotsky wrote: post #4

no linux platform "coming soon" - too bad

Don't they use Linux a lot internally, too?

It's really awful that companies such as Box, Google etc are not supporting the Linux desktop, especially seeing as desktop linux is actually a really attractive option right now - better memory management than OSX and installable on pretty much any device, and Windows is pretty much a joke for non-.NET development or unless you game.

Fuck, their Android platform is based on Linux yet they don't support Linux desktop? That's pretty shitty.

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by [deleted] »

TomatoTomato wrote: post #133
Groxx wrote: post #46

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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.

Is this still the case? Mine only shows 5GB. edit: My Drive updated! You are currently using 17 MB (0%) of your 87040 MB. Should have bought more...

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