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Gdrive was killed in 2008 (according to Steven Levy's book In the Plex after some top management lobbying by Sundar Pichai .. the guy who now wrote the blogpost
by franze 15y ago
Gdrive was killed in 2008 (according to Steven Levy's book In the Plex after some top management lobbying by Sundar Pichai .. the guy who now wrote the blogpost) but as this was 4 years ago and a lot of waves have passed since then, I suspect - without any internal knowledge - that this is a complete new iteration of the same topic.
- EREFUNDO 15y agoI wonder how different this is from insync ( insynchq.com ) when it comes to syncing googledocs.
- andybak 15y agoThe main difference I can see is that insync creates MS file formats when it syncs (.xls, .doc etc) whilst GDrive creates .gsheet, .gdoc files which for me just open Google Docs in Chrome. Interesting difference. Google's approach isn't very good for interoperability. edit: and incidentally insync has failed to comprehend me moving a stack of files into a folder and instead created duplicates. Syncing is a hard problem with lots of edge cases (and on that note Chrome bookmark sync deleted 5 years of bookmarks)
- strongjas 15y agoDo not expect any consistency from Sundar Pichai. He told a group of engineers to focus exclusively on a product, only to shut down their office 6 months later.