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Re: Google Drive

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Post by conradfr »

jxi wrote: post #126
zavulon wrote: post #69

With 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.

Has anyone actually gotta their gmail account locked for a non-malicious reason? I can understand your AdSense account or G+ account locked because those have some various more strict rules, but I've never heard of anyone getting their gmail/calendar/docs account locked. Their automated recovery systems are good enough such that you don't need an actual person. It nags you all the time to enter a phone number and rec…

Yes, I got my Youtube account locked, so that locked my Google account and I couldn't access my mails.

Re: Google Drive

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Post by ed209 »

jxi wrote: post #126
zavulon wrote: post #69

With 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.

Has anyone actually gotta their gmail account locked for a non-malicious reason? I can understand your AdSense account or G+ account locked because those have some various more strict rules, but I've never heard of anyone getting their gmail/calendar/docs account locked. Their automated recovery systems are good enough such that you don't need an actual person. It nags you all the time to enter a phone number and rec…

there are cases of people losing access to gmail because they didn't add their real name into Google+ which is a pretty trivial action.

the problem is that essential work products like gmail and drive are bundled with social elements like g+ or youtube which I'm starting to dislike more and more.

Re: Google Drive

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Post by aganek »

The next big stage of cloud storage is integration. Integration into 3rd party apps. Integration deep into devices (iCloud for iOS and Google Drive for Android). This was a "must" for Google for Android to remain relevant.

Re: Google Drive

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Post by dunk010 »

jwr wrote: post #79
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 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.

It's a 1 minute video so it probably took you longer to post this comment than to watch the thing.

Re: Google Drive

#136

Post by demoo »

tomkarlo wrote: post #122
jlarocco wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First, since cloud storage is the only reason Dropbox exists as a company I think they'll try harder to do it right. If Google Drive doesn't live up to Google's expectations they'll shut it down like they've shut down all of their other unsuccessful projects. Second, possibly related to the first point, it seems the other companies are doing cloud storage to sell their other products. SkyDrive ties in with Office Liv…

Given that Google's charging for Drive and not G+, it kind of seems like the other way around. There's always a risk a company will either shut down a business (Symbian, Wave, MySpace, Delicious), or go out of business (Chumby), or get bought and have their business shutdown (Sidekick, Drop.io). I don't think you can really know the future enough to make product choices based on the chance that will happen.

The fact that they charge for Drive and not G+ doesn't imply that Drive is more important than G+. Looking at everything they have the last couple of months I would argue it is in fact the other way around. Although longer term and not direct revenue, G+ (and it's ad possibilities) is more valuable to them.

Re: Google Drive

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Post by robmcm »

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 normally go to wikipedia for a description of a service or product rather than sift through all the marketing BS that's normally plastered over a website.

Re: Google Drive

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Post by Kudos »

adrianp wrote: post #19

It's funny that in the old Google Docs I was able to upload documents with no issues in any browser/OS, but it seems that in Drive I cannot do it using Opera on Linux (but I can using Chrome). Also, the way in which shared documents have been handled in the transition is just plain stupid.

I never find it strange when Opera doesn't work. It's not Opera's fault, web developers generally don't care about it.

Re: Google Drive

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Post by molecule-eye »

philp wrote: post #15

Has anybody tried syncing extisting folders via symlinks? Using Dropbox this is how I prefer to keep track of folders outside of the actually Dropbox folder. Google Drive just seems to ignore them. Not being able to include other folders would pretty much be a deal-breaker for me :( Any ideas?

Symlinks are ignored. On Mac, aliases are synced as files, but the files themselves aren't followed. Huge disappointment and deal-breaker for me as well.

Re: Google Drive

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Post by dpres »

How is Google Drive different from the way Google Docs is meant to be used? Seems like Google Drive is Google Docs with a new name and an intro video.
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