Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're providing power, redundancy, and network connectivity.
And backups/replication/off-site storage, security, maintenance, etc.
So why don't they say that? Instead it's: 9.99 per month for 1TB.
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#52I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market. I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time? Google is very haphazard with their web properties. Sometimes they shutter them, sometimes they stuff them in the closet. Google Reader, Wave, etc, you know. the stories. What scares me more are…
I agree with the general sentiment, but in this case, I think it's pretty clear it's central to Google's strategy. Now, Nexus phones? Those might not exist in a few short years.
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#53This is quite tempting, but the Google Drive client is just too terrible. I've never once had a single problem with the Dropbox client. Ever.
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#54I currently pay Google $5/year for 20GB. I use half of this. I'm supposed to be really excited about what a good deal it is that I can pay five times as much for five times as much storage that I'm not using...?
You're right. Since you don't use that much storage, no one else could possibly find this price reduction useful.
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#55I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market. I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time? Google is very haphazard with their web properties. Sometimes they shutter them, sometimes they stuff them in the closet. Google Reader, Wave, etc, you know. the stories. What scares me more are…
I know Google will exist in 5 years. How can you be sure Dropbox (an unprotifable startup) will be?
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#56I wouldn't be surprised if this was some attempt to get more of your data for ad analysis. I'd rather stick with Dropbox or AeroFS, at least security/privacy is a priority there.
If you are worried about privacy, you should probably encrypt your files with something like TrueCrypt.
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#57It nags me that even at this great price I'm not jumping up and down to switch from Dropbox. Why is this? -- Once you start using Dropbox there are some serious network effects. It takes a lot of work to get all your friends (both work and personal) to move. -- Even though Google Drive is so much cheaper it just doesn't seem to have the usability of Dropbox. I find the web interface really hard to use for some reason…
What's the difference between paying you to switch, and just being vastly cheaper?
There isn't. Apparently some HNers don't understand how to reason about economics.
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#58I currently pay Google $5/year for 20GB. I use half of this. I'm supposed to be really excited about what a good deal it is that I can pay five times as much for five times as much storage that I'm not using...?
You're right. Since you don't use that much storage, no one else could possibly find this price reduction useful.
My point is - they used to have excellent $/GB plans (grandfathered), then reduced the value, and now have improved the value back to roughly what it was before.
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#59I currently pay Google $5/year for 20GB. I use half of this. I'm supposed to be really excited about what a good deal it is that I can pay five times as much for five times as much storage that I'm not using...?
It's now $12 a year for 100 GB. I'm not gonna tell you to be excited about it, but it doesn't feel like a horrible price.
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#60This is quite tempting, but the Google Drive client is just too terrible. I've never once had a single problem with the Dropbox client. Ever.
Except for all of the security problems DropBox has had over the years, right?