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Google Drive
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Re: Google Drive
#72The best thing about this is that it will finally force Dropbox to offer more storage at a cheaper price point. $200 bucks for 100GB of personal storage per year? I've long thought it's ridiculously high for mass adoption and so many more would be using it if the price was a bit more reasonable. For me: 1. I need much more space than 100GB - I'd ideally like a TB+ on the cloud. 2. The price has to be more acceptable.…
Agreed about high dropbox pricing. But it isn't too bad imho.
There are three inter-related concepts: backup (mirror of your hdd), archiving (extension of your hdd), sync (subset of files on multiple devices) and sharing.
But if you're ok with using different services for different purposes, you can easily get what you want.
To archive non-media files, 5 GB should be sufficient. To archive media files, pay $60/yr to Vimeo for video and $25/yr to Flickr for unlimited storage.
For backup, pay $50/yr to Backblaze.
If you try to use a service optimized for sharing and sync (Dropbox) for archival and backup, you're going to experience friction.
Just my two cents.
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#73"Your Google Drive is not ready yet" :(
Frustrating, isn't it? I'd have loved to give it a shot, to see how it compares to Dropbox.
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#74So 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.
Also notably, your wallet.
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#75I like it. Well, I can't use it currently (my drive "isn't ready yet") but I've wanted a more feature-ful Dropbox[1]. With Google killing off tons of projects I love (latest being Picasa for linux, sad face) it's nice to see they're adding cool things in the meantime. [1] That is, Dropbox's philosophy is to create something dead simple that an idiot can use, whereas I suspect Google's product will be laden with optio…
picasa for linux was just a bundle of wine and picasa for windows, you can easily replicate this setup yourself.
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#76I wish I could select on android which folder I wanted Synced. Right now I had to manually share the photo folder from my gallery. (I dont want to use google+ photos)
I am going to try and build this with Drive API
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#77With Google's legendary customer service, it's only a matter of time until someone gets their account locked, loses all their files and can't get them from Google because there's no way to speak an actual person.
Isn't the whole point of this to synch your files to your local computer?
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#78"Your Google Drive is not ready yet" :(
I'm also seeing this. Is it not available internationally yet or are they just rolling it out slowly?
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#79I'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 rarely watch the videos. Life is too short. If I can learn about the service/product by reading, that's fine, if not — I'll just abandon the page. If the service/product is any good, it will come back to me sooner or later via friends' recommendations.
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#80The 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.
Evernote already does a great job with ocr for searching images (along with your notes).