Comments on: A Look At Google Drive, Google’s Long-Awaited Cloud Storage Service

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:05:15 +0000

Honestly? Ease of use, I think. The average user wasn’t using FTP a lot, but the average user certainly started using Dropbox.

It’s also automatic, whereas FTP doesn’t watch your files and automatically sync them.

Plus — free storage. A web domain may be a lot cheaper if you want to pay for storage, but most people use the free storage, which is cheaper than paying for hosting.

By: Francesco Anastasio

Francesco Anastasio — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:32:47 +0000

I really can’t figure out; why these cloud webservices are considered almost as a revolution? what’s the diffrence between sending a document to google drive and send a document to a webdomain, which is a lot cheaper? I wont never spend a single coin for a cloud web service, any of them! FTP forever! xP

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:40:02 +0000

But you can directly download files from the Google Drive website, can’t you? How does Dropbox do this part differently?

By: Oscar Rainford

Oscar Rainford — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:06:08 +0000

Direct Downloads would be a lot better. Like dropbox

By: Vahid

Vahid — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:45:10 +0000

Agree. What I expect is to have ‘one’ could space shared among different services like files, docs, photos,… and accessed from a central easy to use portal on any of my devices. Other services like contacts and bookmarks (web and maps) are very primitive and scattered.
Anyway, I would like to see how new devices (like HTC One and SGS3) that come with some free Dropbox space handle the integration in their software.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:21:26 +0000

Yes, Google really needs to integrate their services better. They’re working on that, so I’m happy about it.

Google Drive definitely has some problems (I’d like to see proper offline docs access myself, as well as integration with Picasa Web Albums photos).

By: Vahid

Vahid — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:24:04 +0000

It’s still not mature enough and not what expect from Google. Have a look at my post (lazytechyguy.blogspot.com) that I wrote last year to know what I exactly expect from Google’s cloud services. For know I still have to build up the could that I want using different apps and services which definitely won’t have the integration and consistency and easiness-to-use of apple iCoulde.

By: hepkess

hepkess — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:45:41 +0000

You didn’t leave much for alternative answers here. (Don’t know if this is going to the right place or not) Only one answer for using; awesome. I am testing it, if I like it, I’ll use it.

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By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:17:50 +0000

I thought this was a good look at (and comparison of) the various services’ terms of use: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms-privacy-data-skydrive-dropbox-icloud

By: Rahrid

Rahrid — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:50:10 +0000

Hi Colin, where did you get that quote from. Can you please give me a link to Google Drive terms of use?

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:44:51 +0000

Honestly, there are some valid concerns about the terms of service. However, these concerns also apply to Dropbox and SkyDrive, from what I’ve read elsewhere.

Using something like SpiderOak (I’m not sure if Carbonite does local encryption) with local encryption is your best bet if you’re worried about this sort of thing.

Google Drive isn’t for everyone. People now have more options, which is cool.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:40:33 +0000

Well, the apps don’t host your data — it’s hosted on Drive. So, for example, you could create an image with one web app, save it to your drive, then easily open it in another image editing web app. You don’t have to worry about multiple copies of files hosted in different web apps.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:38:53 +0000

SpiderOak’s encryption is really nice. But you can always encrypt files before adding them to Dropbox or Google Drive.

Personally, Dropbox just freaks me out. I’ve never used it for anything more important than moving a few screenshots around. Any service that drops password security for four hours ( http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/dropbox-accidently-drops-passwords-hours-news/ ) is one that clearly doesn’t have proper security practices in place.

Maybe they’ve improved since then, but Dropbox’s security record still freaks me out too much.

By: Arjun Bajaj

Arjun Bajaj — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:29:06 +0000

Till today I have not used File Search a lot, i keep my files clean enough so i can search on my own without having the help of Google or any other searching algorithm.

Also, the point you made in the article about using other applications and saving the data on Google Drive, it just doesn’t make sense, the apps still host your data making it more useless.

And last but not the least, its mobile client is the most useless Android App i have seen. There is absolutely no integration with Third-Party apps like MindMeister, SlideRocket and more. So its useless to use Google Drive to create proprietary data from other applications, which cant even be read by offline applications on desktops or phones…

And obviously the privacy policy sucks, so definitely Google Drive is just a me-too product trying to get into everything what others do.