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Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by payomdousti »

simonsarris wrote: post #9

I 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 don't think this is a fair comparison considering those were all free services.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by Tloewald »

simonsarris wrote: post #9

I 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…

Google Drive has been around in some way/shape/form for a long time, I don't think it's going anywhere. And I doubt Google is going anywhere soon (it's probably going to survive five years even if it gets disrupted).

The big losers here will be Dropbox, HubiC, Box, etc. who will feel price pressure.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by gnur »

jafaku wrote: post #176
mburns wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know Google will exist in 5 years. How can you be sure Dropbox (an unprotifable startup) will be?

Unprofitable? Really? It's one of the most successful (if not the most successful one?) Y combinator companies (it's not a startup anymore). PG said it was a black swan. Besides, what do I care whether Google will exist? We are talking about Google Drive, and we know very well it could be gone just like that.

Except for the fact that it is integrated in gmail, google plus, android and probably some other services I forgot.

It has generally taken years of neglect for services of Google to be discontinued. Google reader was hardly updated for the last 2 years it existed.

This is a service you are paying for, how many payed for services have been discontinued by google?

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by brador »

larrys wrote: post #183
brador wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couldn't the NSA just loop the security tape to keep you warm and fuzzy while they get your drive?

Details details. Well first they would need physical access and then they would also need to know which drive number was owned by which person (not super difficult for sure but a system could be designed where it was more "swiss" in style of identification) and then they would have to break the encryption if they gained access. I am not and wasn't specifically doing this for NSA reasons more just typical reasons why…

If the intent is to make an offline backup that can't be found easily you could just dig a hole in your local park. If it's a backup of, say, customer details, that you need access to update sometimes, then the best option would be client side encryption with a cloud drive. The rest is a magic show of busy work that achieves no additional goals.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by alastair »

lucb1e wrote: post #240
jliptzin wrote: post #203

If nothing else this just exposes how high Dropbox's margins must be.

I think Dropbox actually spends a fair bit more on bandwidth because of all the syncing. As far as I know Google has no desktop client (and if they do they failed to offer it to me), whereas with Dropbox it's really the way to go. But in general yeah I agree, the margins of all these storage companies are very high. As I've said in other comments here, I think I can do it cheaper using consumer-priced hardware (let a…

> As far as I know Google has no desktop client

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive/?hl=en

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by sytelus »

Absolutely not good enough. Even at $10/mo these prices are horrible. To compare this, Flickr is currently offering 1TB FREE for all photos + videos storage. Even my crummy hosting provider is offering 1TB for $5/mo with unlimited bandwidth plus host of other goodies thrown in. Dropbox paid account was already a rip off. Google Drive is less ripoff, but ripoff none the less.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by quackerhacker »

simonsarris wrote: post #9

I 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 don't think you should worry about the reliability of Google "wanting," users to host their content. Considering Google builds one of the most extensive, profitable, and privacy scaring profile on each IP address, MAC address, and user of any of their services for free.

The simple fact that Google can get paid for a service that only helps them further their profiling and profitability in ads and Chrome OS is more reason for them to offer the service.

I don't question reliability. I question privacy, and until Dropbox makes their NSA agreement (which I remember reading they didn't)...Dropbox is my goto!

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by driverdan »

beering wrote: post #32
simonsarris wrote: post #9

I 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…

Managing your risks is fair, but it's not clear that Google Drive is less reliable than Dropbox. 1) Google Drive is a fundamental part of their online office suite, which means it's used internally for day-to-day employee work. Reader, Wave, Finance didn't get that status. Not to mention that having paid enterprise plans means it's a bit more mature than other things. 2) In 5 years, Dropbox could very well be referre…

Wasn't Wave used quite a bit internally?
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