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Google drive will certainly NOT be a failure if they match the user experience of dropbox at a price that is better. Dropbox, however, should have a plan to avo
by angdis 15y ago
Google drive will certainly NOT be a failure if they match the user experience of dropbox at a price that is better. Dropbox, however, should have a plan to avoid being "mapquested" by google if they want to stay relevant.
What I don't understand is why there aren't more solutions like the old jungledisk where you supply your amazon s3 keys and get a virtual drive that acts as an interface to s3.
- robk 15y agoJungledisk is still around, although the pace of updates has slowed quite a bit. I like the option to choose between AWS and Rackspace too.
- toomuchtodo 15y agoBecause the JungleDisk solution is clunky. You're either going to use Dropbox if you're a casual user or use a Linux filesystem in user space to interface to S3. JungleDisk is the purgatory no one wants to be in. Note: I've used JungleDisk; my business partner still uses JungleDisk and complains about its shortcomings; I tell him to switch to Dropbox.
- angdis 15y agoI've used jungledisk for a long time and felt they've really squandered a great opportunity (or maybe getting acquired by rackspace _was_ the opportunity in the first place). I agree the jungledisk UX could be better, but the idea was good: run an service on the user PC that works with s3 and behaves like a hard-drive and make the user pay amazon directly for the storage and bandwidth "a-la carte." There really isn't a need for servers, why not just s3 buckets + the user machines? I am surprised there aren't opensource solutions that just take s3 keys and make a virtual drive. Or are there?
- toomuchtodo 15y agoThere are solutions such that you describe, but they're FUSE filesystems for Linux, not full blown GUIs for OS X and Windows. JungleDisk uses the server functionality for maintaing state.