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The Google Drive app for PC and Mac is being shut down in March

• lern_too_spel 9y ago
  The bigger news is that they announced GA of their Dropbox Project Infinite competitor today. https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/09/drive-file-stream-from-google.html?m=1 https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/09/drive-file-stre... Could a launch bug have caused this morning's Google Drive outage?
• regularjack 9y ago
  That title is very click-baity. Yes, it's being shutdown, but it's also being replaced by "Backup and Sync" which does basically the same thing. I've been using it for a while now and don't even realize I'm not running the old Google Drive app.
  • binarynate 9y ago
    Agreed - I switched to "Backup and Sync" a few weeks ago, and it's effectively the same.
    • cududa 9y ago
      I kind of hate it. Lots of nagging notifications and it has a bug where it'll render a little 120x40px window in the top right of my screen and have to restart the app to get rid of it.
• neverminder 9y ago
  I find it weird that Google doesn't release linux version, considering that majority of their employees use linux (Goobuntu to be precise). There's even a rumor that they have such an app for internal usage, so why not share it with the world?