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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.
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 par…
What are you talking about? Users have complete control over who they share their documents with in Drive. How is it 'evil' to provider a better UI for what people can already do (email documents to one another)?
Any company that deals with sensitive data probably already does not use any sharing service. If necessary you could write a custom sync app that encrypts on upload to gDrive and decrypts on download. I have worked for a company that had implemented automatic encryption on emails, including attachments (at least with it's largest clients).
I had the 20gig for $5.00 plan. I say had, because I went to the Drive plan page and was told:
* Your current plan is no longer offered. Learn more.
The page redirect goes here:
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
No idea why it is called butter.
The excellent thing is that you are grandfathered in.
I recently upgraded to Dropbox @ $199/yr for 100gb to archive our digital photos. Yesterday MSFT skydrive offered 100gb for $50/yr. Today GOOG offers 400GB for $100/yr or 1TB for $256/yr. As a consumer with "offsite backup" in mind, there doesn't seem to be an inherently high switching cost to move services away from DropBox. As a result I think that they're going to need to reassess pricing strategy within the year.…
I was an original Box user. The ease of Dropbox integration makes me shudder at the thought of giving up that hassle saver.
Features-smeatures. I want an online file system that is exactly that.
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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.
Not everything: http://sketchup.google.com/ http://picasa.google.com/
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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…
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…