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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 revelation »

edw519 wrote: post #100

What might go wrong? (This is a test of imagination, not confidence.) Google might finally unleash GDrive and steal a lot of Dropbox's thunder (especially if this takes place before launch.)... From Dropbox's 2007 YC Application, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27532820/app.html I love reading old YC applications. I wonder if someday, they'll become the 21st century version of Harvard Business Review case studies.

Thank you so much for digging this up, thats just wonderful.

and an 'enterprise' plan that features, well, a really high price

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Post by timwiseman »

mahyarm wrote: post #277
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.…

Do you want to use it as a purely backup type thing or as the place that holds your only copy? If it's more a backup type thing, something like backblaze or crashplan at $5/month/computer gives you unlimited backup storage. Crashplan also has a 'family' plan that is $12/month for 10 computers. Crashplan also lets you 'seed' a backup with a 1TB HDD that they ship you for $125.

At the risk of being pendantic, I don't think there should ever be an only copy of anything remotely important. (and even 1 local + 1 remote controlled by a single 3rd party is probably not a good policy if it is significant)

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Post by muyuu »

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 get ostracised IRL for saying things like that, and downvoted to oblivion in the net.

I'm glad to see your comment is doing ok. Good sign?

I remember the 90s when most people wouldn't even buy online because they were asked stuff like credit card numbers or just personal information. Group dynamics really are an incredible thing.

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Post by stanmancan »

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.

Find one of the many "$100 of Adword credit free" coupons around, create an ad with your Dropbox referral link, sit back and watch your storage limit increase a couple times per hour.

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Post by rachelbythebay »

Splines wrote: post #279
its_so_on wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the same reason 20% time is dead and requires management approval. do I really have to spell it out? (google maps started as an engineer fooling around with ajax).

Do you work at Google? I'm curious, because according to others, while 20% time does technically require management approval, it's usually not a problem. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3703018 Also, inferring company culture from the lack of a visible public beta is a bit of an assumption, don't you think?

Going from "it's your time, nobody can take it away from you, but it's up to you to take it", as it was in my day, to "it requires management approval" is a big difference to me. Would you agree?

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Post by spinchange »

Groxx wrote: post #187
ben1040 wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.google.com/settings/storage/ The pricing changed today. It is considerably less attractive now. It looks like I'm grandfathered into $20/year for 80GB, but if I wanted to go up to 100GB the pricing is now $4.99/month.

They're doing a lot more with the data now, so I suppose it makes sense. But I wonder how many people would choose the old option for 'dumb' storage. Currently, I would, though that may change in a few months.

The dumb storage had far better economics for the user. I love Google products and services, but my immediate impression here is that it's a total step backward for users like me who were already using some kind of local sync app (Insync, OfficSync, etc) w/ paid-extra Google storage - just for documents.

All the extras like the additional gmail space, GDrive integration with other products (but not our dumb storage) seems like ancillary stuff to sell it/lock you into the platform.

Like you, I'm interested to see how I feel about this in a few months.

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Post by Achshar »

tlogan wrote: post #250
rjv wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems to only be the case with "Google" document formats (Google document, Google spreadsheet, etc). Every other file type seems to sync local files appropriately.

But it is Google Docs... Meaning I still have to use some other tool to have offline access (and backup) of my documents? Isn't whole point of Dropbox to have offline access and (multiple) offline backups of your files?

those files will be opened with google docs web app. the web app itself can work offline. so your docs work offline.
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