It seems to be disabled for google apps?
Google Drive
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Re: Google Drive
#32The icon looks a bit like a recycling symbol. This is not a good metaphor for cloud storage. And no linux client.
No linux client turned me off of full adoption (especially when dropbox does support linux)
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#33You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe. It makes me wonder how serious is Google about WebM.
http://www.youtube.com/html5 The YouTube HTML5 player is still in trial mode, just not stable enough to use on the homepage of a major product launch. All in good time, there are definitely people at Google working on it :-)
If you are one of them, let Page and his team(that would include you) know that they are doing a good job with the new direction the company is going towards.
Re: Google Drive
#34The icon looks a bit like a recycling symbol. This is not a good metaphor for cloud storage. And no linux client.
I just can't believe the no Linux client schtick. It makes no sense.
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#35Google & Apple make outstanding marketing videos. They are routinely some of the best I see in any industry, and the clear leaders in the tech industry. The only "startup" I have seen that rivals their quality of marketing videos is Square. Does anyone know how much producing video like this costs?
I actually contacted the guy who made Square's videos and it's in the tens of thousands of dollars. My memory is hazy but it wouldn't surprise me if it's around $50k+. The videos more than pay for themselves, however.
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#36Is it just me or is this landing page pretty terribly designed (other than the video)? If I didn't already know what the product is, I would have no idea what I'm looking at. Is it a cyberlocker? Is it a Dropbox clone? Is it a social file editor? Heck, the landing page could almost just be describing the previous Google Docs functionality. The most innovative features, OCR and image recognition, are buried away with…
The landing page seems perfectly fine to me, and adequately describes the functionality of the service.
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#37Talk about cheap storage. :) 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year) 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year) 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)
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#38Has anybody tried syncing extisting folders via symlinks? Using Dropbox this is how I prefer to keep track of folders outside of the actually Dropbox folder. Google Drive just seems to ignore them. Not being able to include other folders would pretty much be a deal-breaker for me :( Any ideas?
I use symlinks all the time in Dropbox. Works perfectly both in Linux and OS X.
Anything that a) has no Linux client and b) won't deal with symlinks is about as useful as a chocolate teapot to me.
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#392MB file size limit???
Really? I didn't see that.
Nevermind. Looks like I'm sticking with dropbox.
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#40A key differentiator here vs. Dropbox that I think people are overlooking is the fact that you can actually edit your files and collaborate easily. The transition to cloud-based apps is underway, and Dropbox -- in this respect -- is about to be stuck in the past.
I disagree and I have no affiliation with Dropbox or have any vested interest in their success.
I just tend to think that the optimal cloud solution is as close to invisible as possible while letting people use whichever software tools they need. I don't really see any single entity owning the software and the storage because no single entity can own the collaboration tools. I view collaboration and syncing as two distinct business lines without a whole lot of interdependence. Personally I use Google docs once in a blue moon, and even when I do, I don't see how Google Drive makes that process any easier.
It may be that I just don't understand the product, but I don't think this will be any more successful than its competitors except for the fact that, when compared to Dropbox, it is substantially cheaper. But then again, Dropbox may be able to parter with Amazon to keep Google out of the space as much as possible and keep costs down.