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Haven't seen anything on the key question here for me ... how are they monetizing this? I'd rather not upload a ton of personal data to Google until I know how they're making money off of it. (Do they plan to integrate your documents into your search results?)
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If it's an open API, couldn't you make an open source client for linux/bsd? Or is the API not fully featured? (iCloud to FUSE would be cool, too)
The API only supports webapps that are installed through the Chrome Web Store.
[1] https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/
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 saw the same pricing as you did but it _just_ changed as I refreshed the page a second time. 1 TB now costs $49.99 per month, or $600/year. This is a substantial jump from $256/year and means it's no longer an attractive proposition...
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>this goes well beyond "evil." Oh look, it's this tired old canard again. I'd really hate to be in Google's position. Really hate . They make a ton of services that are near universal, not due to lockin, not due to any other anticompetitive shenanigans, but because they're good and people want to use them. And meanwhile with every product launch, 90% of the internet using public is rightly excited, 9 % are meh, and t…
If you quote, quote in full. The problem is not with Google sitting on a lot of data, it's with them exploiting people's ignorance to get it.
Thank you for trying to raise awareness over an admittedly important issue.
But calling this "evil" is absurd.
Go yell at people convincing college kids to sign up for credit cards or buy magazines by handing out T-shirts and movie passes.
For comparison: The phone companies know about every phone call you make. That's a wealth of information. They're exploiting people's ignorance to get it...
The credit card companies know about every purchase you make. Why would a company ever let another company know everything about all of their purchases?
ADP knows how much you pay all of your employees!!!
When your hard drive "fails," the guy from HP and Dell could be copying all of your data, not just "servicing" your computer!!!
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.
i'm the opposite. i just need another 500mb, and i just dont need to pay another $10/m for a bunch of disk space i won't use. everyone i know already has dropbox too, so referrals are out. I hope the pricing of dropbox lowers soon too.
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.…
Surely ease of use trumps price? 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.
no linux platform "coming soon" - too bad
Don't they use Linux a lot internally, too? It's really awful that companies such as Box, Google etc are not supporting the Linux desktop, especially seeing as desktop linux is actually a really attractive option right now - better memory management than OSX and installable on pretty much any device, and Windows is pretty much a joke for non-.NET development or unless you game. Fuck, their Android platform is based o…
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i'm the opposite. i just need another 500mb, and i just dont need to pay another $10/m for a bunch of disk space i won't use. everyone i know already has dropbox too, so referrals are out. I hope the pricing of dropbox lowers soon too.
Find one of the many "$100 of Adword credit free" coupons around, create an ad with your Dropbox referral link, sit back and watch your storage limit increase a couple times per hour.
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I think you got an "old pricing plan," which does not include Google Drive: http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ... I'm in the same boat, having had an 80GB plan for $20/yr for some time now.
I think you got an "old pricing plan," which does not include Google Drive I actually bought an 80GB "old" plan this morning ($20 isn't that big of a bet) after seeing the leak of the upcoming pricing, essentially trying to grandfather in a more favorable plan. While the comparison implies that the old plan doesn't have gdrive, I most certainly have it and have the full 80GB available in it. Further I retain the abil…
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…