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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 mmmmbop »

Yeah I think I'll pass. SkyDrive gives me 25GB and their "access any file on your computer (even those outside of your skydrive folder) from skydrive.com" feature is amazing.

Plus like someone else already mentioned, having GDrive download hyperlinks is subpar imo. I'd rather get the doc or xls back, edit it on a client, and have it re-upload and convert to gdoc format.

SkyDrive: 25gb (or 7 which is still > 5), cheaper plans, you can access your entire computer from skydrive.com, and it already has iphone/ipad clients.

I really don't see a reason why anyone should use GDrive over SkyDrive unless they were a heavy gdocs user.

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Post by johnpowell »

AlexandrB wrote: post #173

The bottom line for me is that I no longer trust Google enough to use this. Pricing, etc. don't matter if the privacy of my data is up for grabs.

I'm in the same boat. The the thought of installing this never crossed my mind. A few months ago I even set up my own email server on a spare Linode so I could ditch Gmail.

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Post by jedc »

amirmc wrote: post #140
magicalist wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

People get hacked and/or locked out of accounts surprisingly often. A good (and tech-savvy friend) was recently hacked, and managed to get thousands of dollars transferred before found it.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if you have a Gmail account please follow Jeff Atwood's directions below. Turn on two-factor authentication, make sure you've verified a phone number and recovery email address account.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hac...

It eliminates virtually all of the easiest "threat vectors" to your Gmail account.

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Post by Flenser »

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.…

It's a pity the +25GB plan for $2.49 isn't as good a deal. It's $1.20/GB/year compared to ~$0.60/GB/year for all the others. It should be $1.25/month - $15/year. Glad I got grandfathered in with the +20GB for $5/year plan.

Here's all the pricing info I could find for Google Drive, Old Google pricing, Sky Drive and Dropbox:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag97-edaO5TwdFY...

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Post by rogerbinns »

patrickk wrote: post #356
rogerbinns wrote: post #330

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We should also have list going the other - things Dropbox has that GDrive doesn't: * Linux support * Headless (command line interface) * Public bug tracking and feature requests (votebox) Unsure about these * Shared folders I'm struggling to come up with more.

" Linux support ... Headless (command line interface) Most normal (non-techie) users aren't going to care about these though. I can see the OCR being a big win among college students...scan in all your handwritten notes, and boom! they're all indexed and searchable and won't get lost before you need them for your final exam.

All features are useful to some subset of the user base. I'm just trying to help compile a list going the other way of things Dropbox does and Gdrive doesn't. It is up to others to determine how much or little they matter. That the list is so short indicates just how competitive the gdrive offering is.

I've never encountered anything that reliably reads my handwriting, and that includes my brain!

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Post by johns »

pmr_ wrote: post #370
icebraining wrote: post #339

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If the API allows, I give it a week tops for the first two to appear on Github.

Google currently isn't winning the price for cool APIs. There is still nothing decent for G+. Are there any news on how an API for Drive is supposed to look like?

https://developers.google.com/drive/

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Post by manveru »

boxy_brown wrote: post #224
namityadav wrote: post #145

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I have been looking (for years) for a "good" online storage/sync solution that allows me to store my documents using my own private key. TrueCrypt etc don't reach the "set it, and forget it" level. But when you think about how much more expensive storing those documents will be for these companies (as each copy of the same document will be encrypted with a separate private key), and how much value these companies wil…

BoxCryptor: http://www.boxcryptor.com/ Provides a pain-free encrypted layer on top of free cloud storage services like DropBox. BoxCryptor encrypts individual files, then stores the encrypted files in DropBox. If your DropBox account is compromised the adversary will only get useless encrypted files. Uses EncFS. Has clients for Windows and Mac. The Android and iOS clients are amazing. To me, the most surprising thing…

Also claims to work on Linux: http://www.boxcryptor.com/download/#platform_linux_dl

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Post by Jare »

felixfurtak wrote: post #379
primigenus wrote: post #35

Here's the most important paragraph in the blog post that most people will gloss over (because Google glossed over it): "Drive is built to work seamlessly with your overall Google experience. You can attach photos from Drive to posts in Google+, and soon you’ll be able to attach stuff from Drive directly to emails in Gmail. Drive is also an open platform, so we’re working with many third-party developers so you can d…

'...send faxes' - how quaint!

Hahah yeah, that grabbed my attention too. Last month I registered a company as an iOS developer, and there was a lot of faxing to Apple involved. It took me a while to find a working machine in the building, and figure out how to send these things...
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