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This should be interesting. All Google needs to do for Drive to be "better" than Dropbox is create a clone, integrate it with my existing Google account, and ha
by staunch 15y ago
This should be interesting. All Google needs to do for Drive to be "better" than Dropbox is create a clone, integrate it with my existing Google account, and have higher storage limits.
I'd say it's just as likely as not that they'll manage to create something worse, even with the with Dropbox as a nearly static target for 5 years.
Somehow Big Co's almost always manage to screw up even the relatively easy things.
- nextparadigms 15y agoI'd like the Google Drive to back-up my Android apps, images, videos, settings, Contacts, passwords and other data, so when I change phones or install a custom ROM, I can restore my phone 100%. They already do this with Chrome. I'd like to be able to do the same with Android.
- pinaceae 15y agoso you want iCloud for Android?
- koalaman 15y agowait. Doesn't android already do those things?
- nextparadigms 15y agoOnly some of them, not all.
- cryptoz 15y agoWhich ones are you missing? Google backs up all of the things you mentioned for me on my phone.
- toomuchtodo 15y agoDoesn't backup my files on my SD card and sync with my other devices (Macbook, etc) like Dropbox does.
- revorad 15y agoCan you imagine something going wrong with your account and trying to contact Google support? I trust Dropbox way more than Google. They know what customer service means. Google can't even spell it. They are too proud and addicted to their power.
- arethuza 15y ago"I trust Dropbox way more than Google." I'd be worried about Google doing the wrong thing correctly and Dropbox doing the right thing incorrectly. Given that, I'm not sure who I would actually trust more.
- revorad 15y agoIn four years, I've had exactly one issue with Dropbox, which got sorted out quickly through their excellent support staff. I've had loads of issues with Google and continue to, even as a paying Apps customer. Not one has ever got resolved in my favour. It's like talking to a wall. "Don't grow too big" is an insufficient but absolutely necessary condition for "Don't be evil". I hope Dropbox doesn't grow too big.
- dfc 15y agoYou have had loads of issues with google? What's up?
- revorad 15y agoI've had a site banned from Google Adwords for no obvious reason. No questions asked or answered. My developer account and apps randomly disappeared from the Chrome Web Store. Even after providing a receipt of the verification payment, they said sorry I have to pay again. It was only $5, so I just did that, not a big deal but it took them weeks to tell me that and I lost lots of users in the time. If $5 means nothing to me, what does it mean to a billion dollar corporation? And managing app accounts is a joke. I still keep getting errors while trying to log into various services. Do I want to contact Google support to sort it out? Hell no.
- euroclydon 15y agoGoogle has Big Table right? But do they have a distributed storage mechanism on par with S3? I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
- alexgartrell 15y agohttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System If amazon can build it, Google can build it.
- RyanMcGreal 15y agoBut as Steve Yegge reminded us in his famous Platform rant, Amazon knows how to make it a service whereas Google will tend to be stuck thinking about it as a product.
- Hoff 15y agoCorrection: thinking about it as a way to attract product.
- jbeda 15y agoCheck out Google Cloud Storage. https://developers.google.com/storage/ https://developers.google.com/storage/ Proudly built in Google Seattle. We are hiring, by the way. :)
- pron 15y agoDropbox is a terrific product. Simple for absolutely anyone to use, it does one thing and does it perfectly well. But I think Dropbox as a company is indeed vulnerable. They have only the one product, as perfect as it is, and no hold on their customers. If a Dropbox clone were to appear tomorrow, transferring your files is a matter of minutes if not seconds. Thus they're posed for fierce price competition, with fast-dropping profit margins. So the name of the game will be added-value services - services that would potentially "lock-in" customers and make it harder to switch. Unfortunately, Google seems better posed for such services, but I, for one, will stick with Dropbox for now, simply because I don't want to give Google access to so much of my data (it's quite enough that they keep all my e-mail).