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Re: Google Drive

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Post by rkudeshi »

trustfundbaby wrote: post #48

I'm curious to know how many people like this trend of having to watch a video when you get to a landing page. Its showing up in more and more places, and I personally dislike it (I don't want to load a video and watch a clip, if I can quickly scan text and images and figure out if I should continue), but I wanted to know what other people thought.

I like both, personally.

Ideally, I want to see a few images to get an idea of what the product is. If I'm interested, I'll watch the video to actually see how it works.

There are things you notice in a video you'd never grasp just from a few pictures, just like how a few pictures can sometimes explain things much better than a lot of words.

Re: Google Drive

#52

Post by jawngee »

So now they have your social network, your search history, your email ... and now your files? I can't see how that could possibly go wrong.

Re: Google Drive

#53

Post by sriramk »

lomegor wrote: post #47
untouchable wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No linux client turned me off of full adoption (especially when dropbox does support linux)

While Dropbox does support Linux, I could only get the client to work on the Ubuntu distro. Not saying that Google Drive is better (they don't even have a client), but that Dropbox Linux support is not so good.

I got it to work pretty easily on Centos.

Re: Google Drive

#54

Post by DonnyV »

diminish wrote: post #6

microsoft, canonical, apple and now google; won't any one of the bigger tech players buy dropbox instead of developing something new?

The way I see it Dropbox made a BIG mistake not selling to Apple. They have now been marginalized by Google Drive. Dropbox is expensive and doesn't offer any of the great features of Google Drive....there done.

Re: Google Drive

#55

Post by jlarocco »

lomegor wrote: post #47
untouchable wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No linux client turned me off of full adoption (especially when dropbox does support linux)

While Dropbox does support Linux, I could only get the client to work on the Ubuntu distro. Not saying that Google Drive is better (they don't even have a client), but that Dropbox Linux support is not so good.

I haven't tried this, and it's a bit old, but: http://v3gard.com/2009/04/using-dropbox-on-slackware/

Seems like the general idea could be used on other distros.

Re: Google Drive

#57

Post by ajross »

lomegor wrote: post #47
untouchable wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No linux client turned me off of full adoption (especially when dropbox does support linux)

While Dropbox does support Linux, I could only get the client to work on the Ubuntu distro. Not saying that Google Drive is better (they don't even have a client), but that Dropbox Linux support is not so good.

I'm running it just peachy right now on Fedora 16 x86_64. Add a repo, install the package, and it bootstraps itself. It's quite clean.

Re: Google Drive

#58

Post by grinich »

trustfundbaby wrote: post #48

I'm curious to know how many people like this trend of having to watch a video when you get to a landing page. Its showing up in more and more places, and I personally dislike it (I don't want to load a video and watch a clip, if I can quickly scan text and images and figure out if I should continue), but I wanted to know what other people thought.

Text is high bandwidth, but videos are much better for communicating emotion.

Re: Google Drive

#59

Post by yalogin »

The biggest things here are the OCR, image recognition and (hence deeper) search feature for your files. It would be really tough for Dropbox or any other competitor to match these. The Google drive also seems to be available on all platforms so looks like a very good option.
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