To me Drive feels like another part of Google's push to get everything integrated into one easy environment. The end goal is (potentially) noble, but I feel like they are trying too hard to push products out too fast, and a lot of the releases they are making feel quite forced. I don't think that Google and the Google userbase is ready for something like this, and even if this is a really good product I see it failing just like many of Google's other recent products.
Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
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#132Has 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?
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is incorrect, you are looking at the old Google account storage costs. These are different and may supersede the old pricing. You can get started with 5GB of storage for free—that’s enough to store the high-res photos of your trip to the Mt. Everest, scanned copies of your grandparents’ love letters or a career’s worth of business proposals, and still have space for the novel you’re working on. You can choose to…
I don't know if it is, though. I have Google's +20gb plan from an earlier purchase, and it gives me 25gb in Drive too, for $5 per year.
Is this still the case? Mine only shows 5GB.
edit: My Drive updated! You are currently using 17 MB (0%) of your 87040 MB. Should have bought more...
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#134The official blog says you can buy 100 GB for $4.99 a month. If I go to my google accounts settings page to try to buy it, itsays 200 GB for $50 a year. Something is not lined up correctly. I'd pay $50 right now and get rid of Carbonite if I thought it would pay off, but I don't want to get stung paying $50 for the wrong type of storage.
Well, I went to Google Drive again, and this time when I clicked the upgrade button I saw the pricing consistent with the official announcement.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the pricing page of My Account it says: Select a plan: 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year) 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year) 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year But in the blogpost it says:"You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month" They should probably get that sorted out.
Mine said that also, until about 2 min ago. It now points to a different page with the new pricing.
Yeah. I got all excited at the idea of paying $50/year for 200GB. The actual prices are still much cheaper than Dropbox, but not quite as radical as it first seemed.
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#136Anyone know if this is the original Google Drive they wrote all those years ago and never launched, or a new thing they reused the name for?
The fact that you have to ask (and that the question sounds credible) is a bad sign.
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#137Why do people here expect Dropbox to 'respond'? As far as I'm aware, their growth (primarily) comes from people inviting each-other and they're obviously device/OS agnostic. Yes, the pricing is way different but we shouldn't assume that's the major driver for most people.
Simple: Everybody and their mother already has a Google account.
It's a lot easier to tell someone to use Google Drive instead of creating an account on Dropbox and installing their software and going through the whole rigamarole.
Unlike SkyDrive et al, Drive is aiming right at the throat of Dropbox and Google has the money to make sure it succeeds (see G+).
Dropbox doesn't have to compete on price (I don't think it's as big a factor as everyone makes it out to be), but they do have to think about improving the feature set.
If Dropbox doesn't respond, they do so at their own peril.
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#138I'm really happy that they skipped the whole beta/invitation launch.
I'm not! It means hacking there is dead, and the whole company is run by marketing consultants.
What on earth are you talking about? Google's infrastructure is so large it can handle the same sort of influx that Gmail would have generated, whereas back then they couldn't.
Why on earth does that mean the company is run by marketing consultants?
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#139The 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 enjoyed a near monopoly on their feature set and ease of use for a long time. Now that serious competition is showing up they're going to have to drop their ridiculous prices.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
"You can attach photos from Drive to posts in Google+" And this reminded me how much stuff I already have sitting in Google. A minor glitch last week meant I couldn't access my webmail (though I primarily use IMAP), which made me start thinking about this. I'm really pleased to see Drive come out but at the moment I feel reluctant to put too much stuff into it because I become even more dependent on the big G (and I'…
Well it's a good thing a major point of the product is the local copy :)
Yes, but that's not really what concerns me. It's that my workflow runs through those services.
To clarify, email (basically your identity online), calendars, device syncing, now file-sharing can be run through Google (and I'm sure a whole lot of other things too). If these were to disappear* I'd basically be left with a nice shiny box, where I could 'work' but in a much more limited way. It would feel like being on a digital desert island (e.g. I do this now by working in places that don't have wireless and letting things 'sync' when I'm back online).
I guess I'm just wondering how few companies are in a position to offer services like these, resulting in Google getting all my stuff. It's not bad per se but it is making me wonder what my options really are.
(edits for clarity)
*I'm referring to the odd story of people getting locked out of google accounts. I know it's rare.