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This. The very obvious thing in the $10 terabyte offer is, Google wants Dropbox and all data hosters out of business. So I trust that Dropbox _will_ be out of

• Chronic26 13y ago
  No. Google will drop Drive just like they dropped their other products. I'm sure of it.
• sbuk 13y ago
  Why? Just because Google are going cheap? I'm personally not interested because it's Google. This may surprise many of you, but there are quite a lot of people who simply don trust Google.
  • jmathai 13y ago
    I'm not convinced this is a war that will be won on price alone. Nor will it be won on commodity features (i.e. sync). Google's advantage is that they can slowly eat away at Dropbox's market share by integrating Google Drive with and marketing it through their other products. Dropbox's advantage is their existing customer base. In time I think Google's got the upper hand on this one.
  • tripzilch 13y ago
    > there are quite a lot of people who simply don trust Google. while I agree with you in principle, there's also quite a lot more people who simply are happy (relieved, even) that they can make the computer help them perform the task they want to accomplish. I'm not even saying that Dropbox or Google is better at this, just that I see people use every day just what's right in front of them and they know they can make work. and because of that they don't seem to have the luxury (even if they have the foresight) of considering what will stick around for longest (or perhaps what's idealistically "right" to choose). again, I'm not defending this situation. but it does seem (to me) that the majority of people are motivated by this, and cannot afford or consider decisions like whether or not to "simply not trust Google".