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Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by primigenus »

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…

Some more thoughts on where this could go in the future:

This whole thing is great for Chrome OS and Chromebooks. Right now, using a Chromebook is an experience that comes with a lot of sacrifice. You can't really do much with a lot of the files that you're used to using on Windows. You're locked to a browser UI that limits your flexibility.

But with the upcoming new Aura UI and Google Drive, suddenly you've now got an experience very similar to Windows. You have a desktop that you can put apps on, and you can open arbitrary files using any app that supports it and is available in the store. Now the distance between Windows and Chrome OS is suddenly very small relative to how large it was last year.

This makes me very excited to find out what Google plans to talk about at Google I/O. I wouldn't be surprised if they introduced a new Chromebook model built around the coming together of the new UI and Drive.

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Post by huhtenberg »

tomkarlo wrote: post #259
jonknee wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How could any business person in a sane state of mind choose to share its data with some 3rd party company. Every company has to share its data somehow. You probably aren't your own ISP, or web host, or even land lord. Your company's health insurance provider knows all of your employees and even which ones are sick. Your employees likely have information on their phones and laptops about your company. Etc etc. Goog…

Not to mention proper support for two-factor authentication, which most smaller email systems don't have (especially in-house corporate setups.) Shared services can devote more resources to security because they're splitting the result over a greater number of users.

RSA has been selling such systems for years. My friend's container shipping company of 15 people has it. It really comes down to having a qualified IT person on board, rather than the availability of a technical solution.

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Post by rogerbinns »

Don't forget that Google also has a history of disabling accounts and providing no communication, support or other mechanisms to get it restored. Usually kicking up an almighty fuss in public if you have a prominent twitter/blog works but do you really want to be at their mercy for that?

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Post by felipebueno »

huhtenberg wrote: post #179
untog wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is really shocking how absolutely mind-bogglingly ignorant people are when it comes to online privacy matters. A side note, but it's shocking how people are unable to believe that others are capable of making informed choices. Case in point: I use Facebook. I often get people hounding me- "don't you care about privacy?!?", "Facebook is using your data!" Yeah, I know. I don't mind. The way I see it, privacy is the…

You using Facebook is not a problem, because it doesn't affect me . However if you decide to use GMail or GA or Google Fonts or gWhatever, then it forces me into the picture and I really do not appreciate it. How would you feel if a private company would give away free surveillance cameras to the store operators in return for telling them how many people walked through their doors? Or how would you like your real-est…

Man, I totally agree with you! That state of ignorance you are talking about reminds me of Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)... that is (almost) what is happening nowadays.

And I am literally laughing out loud with the 'taking a shit' thing. =)

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Post by namityadav »

namityadav wrote: post #145
huhtenberg wrote: post #21

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…

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 wil…

@boxy_brown Thanks! I'll take a look

@amirmc my username at gmail.

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Post by mahyarm »

aresant wrote: post #68

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.…

Do you want to use it as a purely backup type thing or as the place that holds your only copy? If it's more a backup type thing, something like backblaze or crashplan at $5/month/computer gives you unlimited backup storage. Crashplan also has a 'family' plan that is $12/month for 10 computers.

Crashplan also lets you 'seed' a backup with a 1TB HDD that they ship you for $125.

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Post by Splines »

its_so_on wrote: post #162
Lewisham wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Do you work at Google? I'm curious, because according to others, while 20% time does technically require management approval, it's usually not a problem.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3703018

Also, inferring company culture from the lack of a visible public beta is a bit of an assumption, don't you think?

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Post by rogerbinns »

mmastrac wrote: post #42

The clock is ticking on Dropbox to lower their price. I'm paying $99/year for 50GB, but I'd be getting 100GB for $60/year over at Google. I'm already banging up against my 50GB limit - I may actually jump over to Google before my subscription is up just because the prices are so good.

Dropbox also screw over paying customers who use shared folders. (Yes I complained, but they kept explaining it was for freeloaders repeatedly ignoring "paying")

If for example you and someone else both pay Dropbox for 50GB each - ie Dropbox is being paid for 100GB of unique storage - and then you share some folders they deduct their space from your quota. As an example if they share 20GB of folders with you then you'll only be able to have 30GB of your own unique storage and between the two of you there will only be 80GB of unique storage.

Do paid sharing with a few more people and you'll quickly be out of space.

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