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Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by celalo »

Smerity wrote: post #96
aresant wrote: post #68

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...

It was available just minutes ago!! I landed a 200GB space for $50/year just before they changed the pricing plans. I should have gone for more :)

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Post by raldi »

folktheory wrote: post #87
bo1024 wrote: post #39

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?)

They "monetize" it by charging money for use of the service.

It's so crazy it just might work.

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by znq »

numlocked wrote: post #66

To anyone else who uses a custom Google apps domain, it looks like Drive may not be available for a few more weeks: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2... Edit: Not so. You can enable the "rapid release" track for your domain by following the instructions here: http://whatsnew.googleapps.com/choose-release-track It may take "up to a day" for the setting to take effect, but once it does your domai…

How does that work with the Mac client? Can you easily add a second or third account? Or can you only log in with one account?

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Post by DLarsen »

huhtenberg wrote: post #21

Well, this pretty much exhausts the pool of people who don't care for the data privacy. On the plus side, those who do want privacy are still waiting for a proper solution, and it is an opportunity. (edit) It is really shocking how absolutely mind-bogglingly ignorant people are when it comes to their data privacy matters. How could any business person in a sane state of mind choose to share its data with some 3rd par…

I hope to see some new tag lines form Dropbox:

"No incentive to explore your files." "Not selling you anything except storage space."

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Post by andrewjshults »

aresant wrote: post #68

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.…

The biggest cost (once you get into those multi GB levels) is the weeks to months it's going to take to get everything up. That being said, I'd be very tempted to use drive to backup my photos (raw files, so sitting at 400GB or so). The price is cheap enough to put everything in there and forget about it, but not too cheap where I have to worry about the storage quality.

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Post by Johngibb »

bryanh wrote: post #11

Some thoughts: It sounds like it is more of a competitor in spirit to iCloud, not Dropbox (though, obviously, Dropbox lacking those deeper integrations is troubling...). 100gb for $5/mo going to hurt Dropbox's margins... Not too surprising gDrive doesn't have iOS support quite yet...

I'd bet they'll be approved today. I thought I saw an iPad in a screenshot.

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Post by fierarul »

huhtenberg wrote: post #21

Well, this pretty much exhausts the pool of people who don't care for the data privacy. On the plus side, those who do want privacy are still waiting for a proper solution, and it is an opportunity. (edit) It is really shocking how absolutely mind-bogglingly ignorant people are when it comes to their data privacy matters. How could any business person in a sane state of mind choose to share its data with some 3rd par…

Then I assume you are also not a big fan on any online service. An interesting trend I'm noticing is that people stop writing offline software.

Pretty soon anything new you want will only be available as a service. What then?

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by akh »

AdrianRossouw wrote: post #95
mmastrac wrote: post #42

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.

As far as I know, Dropbox is using S3, which has reduced its prices several times, so Dropbox should pass that saving onto its users just like AWS is.
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