Ian Mikutel · Top Commenter · Redmond, Washington
Who else read this headline & thought this was going to be about those self-driving cars?
Reply · 350 · · September 24 at 3:16pm
Marc Dedrick · New York, New York
Haha I totally did and I was so excited! Then so disappointed it was only about a Google version of Dropbox...
Reply · 13 · · September 24 at 3:24pm
Miad Hoque · Top Commenter · Stuyvesant High School
I actually thought it would be some advanced GPS thing that's some rewrite of an already well performing Google Navigation
Reply · 7 · · September 24 at 3:29pm
Jason H.s. Meinzer · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
I did, too (at first).
Reply · 2 · · September 24 at 3:34pm
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Sachin Monga · San Francisco, California
I was really hoping this was going to be the self-driving cars...
Reply · 22 · · September 24 at 3:24pm
Aaron Michael Rowe · Top Commenter · College of Southern Nevada
Me too :/
Reply · · September 24 at 4:03pm
Monty Mitra · UC Berkeley
Where is Ryan Gosling in all this?
Reply · 16 · · September 24 at 3:28pm
Brian Hanson · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
EXCITED. I like the idea of being able to use just one account to get my email, social networking, docs, pictures, youtube, and now other files as well. Sounds very nice.
Reply · 10 · · September 24 at 4:40pm
Carlos Garcia
Watch it now, some people find that scurry and think of google as big brother xD
It's all about what you share imo, I have tons of pictures, few videos, some docs and files, lots of posts and quite the amount of emails on my google account. Nothing I really wouldn't share publicly as most of it _is_ public already--with the exception of emails and a few docs/files.
As for Google reading my emails, docs, and my networking, I don't really care. If it makes them advertise to me better, go for it, I might actually click on their ads if I find them more suited to what I like.
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Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 6:57pm
Michael A. Robson · Top Commenter · Shanghai, China
This may sound stupid, but just make a draft email, attach files, then save it, and get the files on the other end. I've done this for a while.
Reply · 2 · · September 25 at 1:54am
William Carlson · Baylor
I TOTALLY agree. Plus, with two step verification this is the most secure service to store your digital life in. Dropbox has had security incidents, and I don't believe google has had a security hole quite as big as they have.
Reply · · September 25 at 12:02pm
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Claudio Michaelis
Add sharing files via G+ and it is dropbox 2.0!
Reply · 10 · · September 24 at 3:31pm
Barryck Rifki · Co-Founder at Zombie BBQ
Hope it won't be a big mess, collecting files -> data -> informations -> Spammer's heaven. lol
Reply · · September 24 at 4:34pm
John McBride · Founder at SnapCrowd.com
Why wait, the best cloud storage platform for photos, videos, music and documents is SnapCrowd.com they give you 10gb of storage on a freemium account.
Reply · · September 25 at 5:51am
Daniel Kay · Top Commenter
Anardo Cuello maybe if you dont know how to use it it sucks. i prefer it. dropbox collects and shares your files and keeps keys to all encrypted files. oh, and own your data too!!
Reply · · September 26 at 2:02pm
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S Endz Neofunk · Top Commenter · Songwriter/Vocalist at DesiRock Entertainment
Dear Google, please give us at least 10GB of free storage :)
Reply · 8 · · September 24 at 5:33pm
Jay Jacksonrao · Top Commenter · Baltimore, Maryland
At 10GB I will leave Dropbox.
Reply · 3 · · September 26 at 12:00pm
S Endz Neofunk · Top Commenter · Songwriter/Vocalist at DesiRock Entertainment
Jay Jacksonrao Exactly. I have 6GB of space on my Dropbox and I've used almost 5GB of it. 10GB from Google, I'd transfer everything out and still have lots of space to spare. If I were Dropbox right now, I'd give all users an extra 2GB right now. And drop their prices. Google Docs are already offering an extra 20GB for $5/year. I think most people will probably just do that once there's a simple two-way local file sync. Hell, $5/year might as well be free lol!
Reply · 1 · · September 26 at 1:45pm
Paul Ricard · Top Commenter · HEC Paris
Let me take a guess: roll out starting October 4 :-)?
Reply · 6 · · September 24 at 2:59pm
Kenny Jackson · Top Commenter
Why the 4th?
Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 3:30pm
Paul Ricard · Top Commenter · HEC Paris
Oh, just a tinny tiny thought :-). http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/21/report-next-apple-media-event-october-4th-to-star-tim-cook-and-the-iphone-5/
Reply · · September 24 at 3:36pm
Loughlin Gethins · Top Commenter · University College Cork
They will need something a lot bigger than this for october fourth :P
Reply · 2 · · September 24 at 3:44pm
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David Knight · Aveland High School
This does make me wonder what will happen to Dropbox, but at the same time, maybe they'll now wake up and realise that they are charging way too much for the small amount of storage they offer.
Let's be honest, Dropbox is nothing more than an FTP to put your files on, with a smoother, auto syncing app that handles the transfer for you. Essentially you're only paying for storage, and frankly, $9.95 for 50gb is way too much, I don't even pay that for Amazon S3, and don't even get me started on the fact that Dropbox doesn't even encrypt user data for that fee.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to watching this one play out. Competition can be healthy. =)
Reply · 4 · · September 24 at 3:48pm
Ken Oporto · Centreville High School
For the record, Dropbox uses S3 as it's storage service, and the data is encrypted. That doesn't mean they have no way of touching the data, but it's false to say it's not encrypted. Don't forget they have to pay not just for the storage, but the bandwidth of uploading and downloading each file multiple times, for multiple versions.. it's quite a huge amount of bandwidth really.
Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 6:07pm
David Knight · Aveland High School
Ken Oporto The last time I looked into it, Dropbox wasn't encrypted, and there was also quite a stink about it at the time. Anyway, I also use Arq to backup my entire user folder on my Mac to Amazon S3, that's hourly backups and I have about 110gb storage which comes at about $4-$5.50 a month, big difference.
Reply · · September 25 at 12:11am
Frank Drews · Stuttgart, Germany
I agree that bandwith will be quite a huge cost factor. I love dropbox, but I would like to have a smaller starting plan, I don't need the 50 GB, but my 4 free GB (got some reference extra storage) is geeting crowded. Google has lots of experience in setting up and maintaining low-cost infrastructure. So maybe they will be able to deliver a more cost-effective service than dropbox. I wonder about google apps, this would be a great feature here, too.
Anyway competition is good and I am looking forward to the improvements dropbox will offer in order to counter google drive.
Reply · · September 25 at 5:58am
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Ben Thompson · Top Commenter · Texas Christian University
Yay, now Google can not only read my emails, but all my papers too!
I am excited for the possibility of more free storage space than Dropbox, but I would be very wary if Google is allowed to mine all of this information for data.
Reply · 4 · · September 24 at 2:58pm
Thew Raslletem
encryption, get it
Reply · 16 · · September 24 at 3:12pm
David Knight · Aveland High School
It has been long known that Dropbox doesn't encrypt user data and can access it at any time, so what's the difference? I agree with Thew though, encrypt it before you store it, simple.
Reply · 5 · · September 24 at 3:43pm
Constantine Antonakos · Rutgers Business School
David Knight, how does one do such a thing?
Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 4:24pm
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Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
And it still will be limited to 1 GB. :\
Reply · 4 · · September 24 at 3:01pm
Danny Roa · De La Salle University
Where did you get the 1GB limit? My Gmail has 7GB+ of storage. I doubt Google would have a smaller space for a storage product than its mail service.
Reply · 8 · · September 24 at 3:13pm
Rob Thomas · Owner at OutsideTheBox Technology Solutions
I pay $20 a year to get 80GB from Google and it works every time.
Reply · 7 · · September 24 at 3:14pm
Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
Danny Roa The 7GB limit is *only* for Gmail. Picasa and Google Docs, however, share a separate 1GB limit for no explained reason.
Reply · 2 · · September 24 at 3:16pm
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Dushyant Vaghela · Top Commenter · Founder at Feelings2share.com
A few years ago, this would have been great! But today, there are a million personal cloud storage services 'n half of them provide free storage. If GDrive is just about uploading files, then that can be done in Google Docs too (yes you can upload most files). If Google wants to be successful now, it needs software to allow files to sync automatically 'n have capability to backup folders automatically.
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 5:03am
Joe Castleberry · Manor, Texas
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/googles-self-driving-car/5445
This is what I was looking for,, not dropbox,, along with a bunch of othr people too obviously.
Reply · 1 · · September 27 at 7:16pm
Jerry Wang · Computer Science Department at Yantai University
Will Google Drive kill Dropbox? Google storage is much much cheaper than Dropbox...
Reply · 1 · · September 28 at 7:16pm
Xavier Bertels · Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg
Can’t really see this happening, especially the separate software synch thingy. Why would they launch Google Chrome extensions that allow offline storage *and* release separate software? Chrome seems to be the only software Google wants to maintain and develop in the future. Open Web Standards is what they are pursuing. They even got rid of Google Desktop recently. So why would they launch a dropbox clone?
Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 3:31pm
Darren Smith · Top Commenter
HTML 5 Local Storage is really to add temporary offline capability and permanent state to web apps. It's limited to 5MB per domain in Chrome. It's not intended as a backup/sync solution. Besides, in the context of HTML 5 Storage, 'offline' is the local computer, not the cloud.
Reply · 1 · · September 26 at 12:23am
Xavier Bertels · Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg
Darren Smith that’s absolutely true, for now.
Reply · · September 26 at 12:34am
Nik Cubrilovic · Top Commenter · Techcrunch
Google drive was exciting to talk about 4-5 years ago but now it is just meh.
Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 9:37pm
Nick Oba
Still fascinating to watch how Google gradually takes over every single aspect of our computers.
Reply · 1 · · September 25 at 10:03am
Martin Bristow · Loughton
Agreed, this really isn't a big deal as sites like the original driveway.com were doing this 10 years ago only of course it wasn't called 'the cloud' back then, just plain old Web Based file storage... ;)
Reply · · September 25 at 11:34am
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Reply · · September 26 at 9:20am
Jash Sayani · Top Commenter · Works at University of Utah, College of Engineering
A few years ago, this would have been great! But today, there are a million personal cloud storage services and half of them provide free storage. If GDrive is just about uploading files, then that can be done in Google Docs too (yes you can upload most files). If Google wants to be successful now, it needs software to allow files to sync automatically and have capability to backup folders automatically.
Reply · · September 24 at 5:41pm
David C. Dean · Top Commenter
Most of the ones that aren't terrible cost money. And Google already sells storage space on the cheap. I'd like to see multi-plaform, mounted volume components for it. Other than that, they've just got to run it as well as they run most everything and they'll have most of the competition beat. Mindshare will do the rest.
Reply · · September 25 at 9:49am
Martin Bristow · Loughton
Spot on Jash, something like Syncdocs maybe.
Reply · · September 25 at 11:35am
Mike Henriquez · Top Commenter · San Salvador, EL Salvador
As a dropbox and Google apps user I want to see this working as good as Dropbos. I want to simplify mi cloud services as much as I can and Google is my default choice.
Reply · · September 26 at 8:13am
Mark Murfin · Top Commenter · SIU Carbondale
Sounds exactly like Skydrive, except for the native client stuff. Maybe Microsoft will get their ass in gear and get that out for Skydrive if Google has it for Drive.
Reply · · September 24 at 3:52pm
Chris Barry · West Morris Mendham High School
Seen windows 8? :)
Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 5:58pm
Peter Casson
It's called Mesh (from Microsoft). It's been available for years and syncs beautifully with skydrive.
Reply · · September 25 at 7:31am
Mark Murfin · Top Commenter · SIU Carbondale
Peter Casson it's not the same. It's a separate thing from Skydrive. You have to go to a different website even. You get a separate 5GB, not 25GB, and while you can sync folders, its not like a "drive" or folder. You can't use it like Dropbox.
Reply · · September 25 at 8:11am
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Jason Anderson · Deli Associate at Giant food
Will it be like DropBox where I can install a program on my Mac and PC to set up a folder that sits on my drive and syncs files dropped into it to the Google Drive and then syncs down?
Reply · · September 24 at 3:40pm
Constantine Antonakos · Rutgers Business School
Come on, man. Did you even read the article? Direct quote: "But here’s the real key: there will also be native syncing software that you install on your various computers and mobile devices. Yes, like Dropbox."
Reply · 7 · · September 24 at 4:28pm
Mike Bell · Top Commenter · New York, New York
But of course, they gotta copy Apple's iCloud.
Google = the ultimate copy machine.
Reply · · September 24 at 4:32pm
Kody Scalzi · McKinney North High School
"Of course, it was also real back in 2007 and 2008 before it was eventually killed."
Reply · 10 · · September 24 at 4:45pm
Jason Bauman · Top Commenter · Indiana Wesleyan
This is actually nothing like icloud (at least in how you work it) Google=Browser. Apple=Hardware
Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 7:16pm
Bill K Gwan · Top Commenter · Works at Five conditions,Inc
lol...
Reply · · September 24 at 7:19pm
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Barryck Rifki · Co-Founder at Zombie BBQ
LOL Nothing's related to cars! Yes it was my first thought :P
Reply · · September 24 at 4:33pm
Matthew DeBusk
YES!!!!
Reply · · September 24 at 5:52pm
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Reply · · September 24 at 8:07pm
Carlos Alfredo Bernal · Works at CABQ
this is google docs.....
Reply · 1 · · September 24 at 6:31pm
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