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It's hard to compete with free. Google can afford to undercut Dropbox.
by nickb 18y ago
It's hard to compete with free. Google can afford to undercut Dropbox.
- run4yourlives 18y agoMany people view free as a reason not to use a service. Clearly, if I was going to use the service as disaster recovery, I'd pay for dropbox. (I use dropbox for free right now)
- nickb 18y agoGoogle's services are synonymous with free. I don't see many people freaked out by it. Competing with Google is like competing with MS in '90s... a really hard proposition.
- run4yourlives 18y agoI don't see many people freaked out by it. Depends on your circle really. For personal stuff, I make full use of google. However for anything business related my leash of trust would be a lot shorter. I'd feel much more comfortable to pay for a service that gives me someone to blame/sue should the response to a disaster be less than adequate. You really just don't get this with google.
- unalone 18y agoI don't pay for Dropbox. Its free service is more than enough for me.
- nickb 18y agoWill you switch if Google offers you more space and better integration with their apps? Imagine being able to access & edit your Gdrive files from Google Docs and Gmail, for example. I think this is where Google's going with this.
- unalone 18y agoNo. I dislike Google Docs, I use Mail.app for Gmail, and 2GB is enough for me.