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Google Launches Google Drive Cloud Storage Service
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That ability to open documents for apps you don't have sounds pretty nifty, but given the files I share with other people are always Word documents, I don't think I need it and I'll probably just stick with Dropbox...
As for people saying Apple should take a stab at this, I suspect it's on their list. A few months ago there was an article about how Steve Jobs had approached Dropbox and offered to buy them for $800M. When Dropbox turned down the offer, I suspect Apple began looking into making the feature on their own. Maybe it'll be a big feature of iOS 6 / a new feature to reveal about ML at WWDC? (Speaking of which, where the heck is iOS 6? Hadn't Apple been revealing new iOS versions in February/March each year? They're late this year and I haven't so much as heard any rumors about it!)
As for people saying Apple should take a stab at this, I suspect it's on their list. A few months ago there was an article about how Steve Jobs had approached Dropbox and offered to buy them for $800M. When Dropbox turned down the offer, I suspect Apple began looking into making the feature on their own. Maybe it'll be a big feature of iOS 6 / a new feature to reveal about ML at WWDC? (Speaking of which, where the heck is iOS 6? Hadn't Apple been revealing new iOS versions in February/March each year? They're late this year and I haven't so much as heard any rumors about it!)
its really buggy on my macmy finder doesnt respons and if it does, it ends up looking like this. cant click anywhere
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Those sidebar icons look all the same. Apple should go back to the coloured ones in Lion/Mountain Lion.
You can log into the the Dropbox web interface and "un-delete" a file that someone removed. I believe they store deleted files for thirty days.
That's absolutely ridiculous; "evil" does not even come close to what Google determines through these open-ended "permissions"...to create "derivative works" out of my OWN FILES? Are they effing crazy?
Wow, I'm no lawyer but that does sound pretty terrible.
This is not coming from a google hater either.
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It's a folder that syncs. That's why it works so well. No need to screw it up by adding tons of options that will confuse most of the users.
It's a folder that syncs. That's why it works so well. No need to screw it up by adding tons of options that will confuse most of the users.
I'll take the 5GB of free storage. Pair that with my 2.5GB of free Dropbox storage and I can keep pretty much all of my college work in the cloud for free.
One problem (which is admittedly a fairly big one) doesn't make the entire service crap.
I just switched over to Skydrive because, hey, 25GB for free! While I'm finding it all pretty nice overall (and the iOS app is much, much slicker than the Dropbox equivalent) there are still a ton of little things I miss from the transition. Like if I want to get a URL for a picture or file, all I have to do is rightclick with Dropbox running, and there it is. In Skydrive, I have to log into the website, and jump through a bunch of hoops just to get a link. And the links themselves? HUGE! Dropbox basically worked like an FTP site. I had a common name and everything. Once I got around to remembering the numbers and whatnots that correspond to my account, all I had to do was drop a picture into the public folder, then type out http://dl.dropbox.com/u/buncha_numbers/picturename.jpg (this isn't a real link). I can't do that on Skydrive. And it sucks. It's more about embedding crap into blogs than hosting up links.
So hell. I'm just gonna use them both. One for redundant storage and Cloud BS, and the other for hosting files and projects.
And Google's answer to it? Meh. Might be pretty decent, but I'm already well covered by the above mentioned. It doesn't offer anything the others lack, so I don't really have much of a reason to switch.
How can it be Dropbox be crap or it is their fault that the people you let share the folder don't know shared drive etiquette and to copy the file instead of dragging it?
I don't understand that.
In almost any situation, users should know to copy the file and not drag in a shared situation, right?
Also, people just don't read instructions for anything. So, I don't think that is Dropbox, cloud storage or a shared drive administrator's fault that people don't work in a shared environment well. No way a company can create a product that is completely user #fail proof.
Working in clouds is new and people sharing cloud storage is new. Once people learn the ropes it'll get better. But we had the same growing pains with shared folders back in the day.
I got a free 50GB storage pool at Box.com through my android phone, and I have used it exactly once, because individual file size is limited to 100MB. That's a complete and total deal-breaker for me.
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Good lord champ, enlighten us. So I don't have to use .doc's or .pdf's any more in 12'?
I do feel stupid. Show me the way....
its really buggy on my mac
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Out of curiosity, why couldn't a third party developer use iCloud to sync "html and other web browser type files"? Or are you talking about something else?
I honestly don't care if people know what I search for as long as it helps the products I buy get better.
Apple sets strict guidelines on using anything. MDM is a prime example. MDM is brilliant until Apple puts in the clause that users must be able to remove themselves at any time without admin rights. Whats the use of MDM then at that point!
Apple sets strict guidelines on using anything. MDM is a prime example. MDM is brilliant until Apple puts in the clause that users must be able to remove themselves at any time without admin rights. Whats the use of MDM then at that point!
Then why is Dropbox doing so well? I suspect the majority of Dropbox users aren't developers.
I understand Apple's vision, but for now, it's incomplete.