Google: GDrive - free 5 Gigs to rival dropbox!

[Analog]

Google will launch 'GDrive', an online storage service that will store large files online instead of in PC hard drives 'mid next week'.
The leak came from a Google source speaking to blog 'The Next Web'.
The service will offer 5GB of storage, and appear as an icon on Windows and Mac desktops into which users simply 'drop' files.

The service will be a rival to services such as Dropbox, a 'cloud' storage start-up recently valued at $4 billion.

Google is rumoured to be on the brink of launching 'GDrive', a service that would offer online storage for digital files - a direct rival to startup Dropbox




A Google spokesperson declined to comment on the leak.

The company has long been rumoured to be working on such a service.

Google has spoken about launching a 'G Drive' service in the past, but the company has been tight-lipped on the subject recently.
Videos, documents and music would be stored remotely in Google's data centres, instead of in individual hard drives.

Google Documents already lets users store 1Gb of files online.

Services such as Dropbox have become hugely popular as people increasingly use computers 'on the go' - offering simple 'cloud' storage where users can access their files from anywhere via apps or web browsers.
Dropbox's CEO Drew Houston reportedly turned down a 'nine figure' offer from Apple for the company.

Apple now offers a similar service, iCloud, which stores music, books, films and apps online, and is free to all users of iOS 5, the latest version of its mobile operating service.

 

[rh71]

nice, and 5GB too, but scared of how much they'll be crawling your files. I'm a huge google-everything user but personal files are personal. Not feeling that way about Dropbox.

 

[waggy]

nice, and 5GB too, but scared of how much they'll be crawling your files. I'm a huge google-everything user but personal files are personal. Not feeling that way about Dropbox.

/this
they already have to much of my information

 

[lxskllr]

https://one.ubuntu.com/services/

 

[Fritzo]

nice, and 5GB too, but scared of how much they'll be crawling your files. I'm a huge google-everything user but personal files are personal. Not feeling that way about Dropbox.

What are you afraid they will do with it?

 

[RavenSEAL]

Repost

 

[SunnyD]

5gb? Pfft... I can already store 9.8GB worth of shit in GMail. Then another like 10gb of shit in Google Docs. 5gb? Seriously?

 

[de8212]

Wasn't there some kind of work around where you could do this already? I used to have it on an old laptop. I can't remember the specifics but I definitely used it.

 

[LookBehindYou]

To be really succesfull they are going to need to integrate it into android AND ios apps the way dropbox does.

 

[rh71]

What are you afraid they will do with it?

I'm not typically an overly-paranoid kinda guy (I did mint.com and all that good stuff) but to know that they WILL be scanning through personal financial data for selling ads or god knows what else... no. Also I keep work files on there and that can be sensitive.

So should I just 1) not put files I want to put on there? Or 2) just use someone like Dropbox and not worry about it?

Google is great with their apps, but they're free to us for a reason.

Come on dropbox, give us 5GB.

EDIT> Another thing is I do like that dropbox keeps files on the local machine. I don't want to have to wait for downloads every time.

 

[RavenSEAL]

I'm not typically an overly-paranoid kinda guy (I did mint.com and all that good stuff) but to know that they WILL be scanning through personal financial data for selling ads or god knows what else... no. Also I keep work files on there and that can be sensitive.

So should I just 1) not put files I want to put on there? Or 2) just use someone like Dropbox and not worry about it?

Google is great with their apps, but they're free to us for a reason.

Come on dropbox, give us 5GB.

EDIT> Another thing is I do like that dropbox keeps files on the local machine. I don't want to have to wait for downloads every time.

Lol! How do you think dropbox makes money? Giving out blowjobs?

 

[vshah]

Wasn't there some kind of work around where you could do this already? I used to have it on an old laptop. I can't remember the specifics but I definitely used it.

there were apps that could use gmail to store files. kinda hack-y though.

 

[rh71]

Lol! How do you think dropbox makes money? Giving out blowjobs?

are they scanning the contents of our files and targeting ads that way? They make money through premium users who simply want more storage space.

http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/04/freeconomics-of-dropbox-multi-year.html

Lol!

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Come on dropbox, give us 5GB.

Can get 16GB free, after referrals.

Now if people would just sign up with my referral link when I spam it.

 

[alent1234]

unless google ships an API along with it like dropbox has it will be totally useless

 

[sdifox]

Wasn't there some kind of work around where you could do this already? I used to have it on an old laptop. I can't remember the specifics but I definitely used it.

gmail drive

 

[RavenSEAL]

We're talking about Google, not apple, they will ship an API.


RS

 

[SunnyD]

Box.net = 50gb.

 

[ImpulsE69]

I use minus.com - 10gb.

 

[dwell]

Over 5GB on Dropbox anyway. Google Desktop taught me never to install Google's software.

 

[Saint Nick]

gmail drive

Yup...good ole Gmail drive. I used to use that long before this whole cloud shit became popular.

 

[Skel]

Maybe I’m missing something here, as I don’t deal with this kind of thing often. Doesn’t Microsoft’s Skydrive give you 25gigs? Other than the M$ is evil crap, OMG Google is so awesome let me give them all my business, is there some reason this is better?

 

[Baked]

If I can stream music to my android phone from this drive like the Amazon cloud drive, then I'm all for it.

 

[QueBert]

We're talking about Google, not apple, this will be in beta for 5 years and never work 100% right.


RS

ftfy

 

[RavenSEAL]

ftfy