Comments on: Why Google Needs the GDrive to Fight Microsoft

By: steve

steve — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:02:08 +0000

A lot of time has passed, and nothing has been released.

Amazon S3 storage is still king. Although no search of content on the storage drive! Google really are misisng an open goal here.

By: Google Docs Ratchets Up Flexibility With Files – GigaOM

Google Docs Ratchets Up Flexibility With Files – GigaOM — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:19:19 +0000

[...] as possible online. The company’s latest moves may also fall in line with the long-term GDrive strategy that Google is reported to be focused on, surrounding online storage. Look for more file type [...]

By: Why Sync Is So Difficult

Why Sync Is So Difficult — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:01:53 +0000

[...] Some of these difficulties are just inherent to sync, but the technology is maturing. Sync so far has meant something different to everybody. Even the industry’s main players still sell byproducts of sync rather than sync itself, which then compete with backup, online storage, photo-sharing or music-streaming services. Sync is a great enabler for all these connected services, one that’s becoming central to the personal cloud story of more and more companies. [...]

By: Armchair Theorist

Armchair Theorist — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:09:40 +0000

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By: Nathan S

Nathan S — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:44:39 +0000

Om,
A good article, however, it would be helpful to the reader in deciding if we agree with your concerns or not to spell out the specifics of your concerns with Google and the Gov being too close. Is it privacy you are worried about? Getting locked out?

By: Web Apps Suck at Service

Web Apps Suck at Service — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:31:10 +0000

[...] involves providing a service — it puts the “S” in SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Being a service provider comes with certain expectations, such as offering limits on the amount of data one can store [...]

By: Subtle Google Bashing « A persistent, inward-moving spirit that’s filled with a pliant, youthful sort of curiosity

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:53:42 +0000

[...] this – hidden agendas ? gdrive – everyone bashes a goof up – Yahoo search finds favor [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:31:34 +0000

I disagree that Google is a monopoly.

First, because they have plenty of competition.

Second (and more importantly) they do not have a license from the government to be the only provider of their services.

As long as these two conditions are met…and as of today they are…I think it’s erroneous to label Google a monopoly.

By: poll

poll — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:30:59 +0000

hi om

I completely agree with you about this article Google has become a daily and integral part of your digital portfolio,an awful lot like Microsoft’s Skydrive and Live Mesh offerings. Google however always introduces products to consumers before taking them to corporate users.so Google than pursuing Microsoft over IE.

By: Doug F

Doug F — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:24:51 +0000

You know, we had a good thing for decades with AT&T being a monopoly. But Judge Green broke it up and it’s never been as good.

I could give countless examples of how deregulation messed up perfectly good industries, but I won’t get in a pssing match with anti-corporate Euro-weenie wanna-bes. Competition is great, but someone has to finally win the game. Goggle and Yahoo and others battled and Google won. If they stumble somehow, wait for it to happen instead of hanging crape, and their successor will rise via competitive forces. Without government “helping”…..

Google Apps and Google Earth are great products. GDrive will be great, too, except for the timid privacy types who have all those black helicopters circling their houses at night.

By: Fatema K

Fatema K — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:47:08 +0000

I completely agree with you about Google becoming a monopoly which will eventually turn into a burden for addicted consumers. For instance, the typo that prompted Google’s malware warning system to flag every search result link as dangerous. How many amongst us actually cross checked with another search engine to see if it was actually true. Compare this number with those who decided not to browse that particular site. Something to think about…

By: thirdexpert

thirdexpert — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:16:26 +0000

Hi Om et al.. Just to let you know, I work for http://www.nomadesk.com. We offer easy and secure file sharing, wherever you are. Being online is not required. I read your post on Google’s GDrive with great interest and just wanted to add NomaDesk to the mix in this discussion.
NomaDesk has already been on the market for some time, and we offer similar features geared specifically towards the need of the “digital nomad”. We are convinced that the more data gets synchronized, the more likely it gets compromised. Therefore, NomaDesk includes an encrypted virtual drive that keeps your files securely available off-line and remote file shredding and IP-tracking with TheftGuard. Of course, we impose no limits on storage and bandwidth. A Mac version is on its way.

So,

I would appreciate your review.
F.

By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:20:33 +0000

“Do no evil.” ?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:24:14 +0000

Interesting article, but the part about Google being monopoly is a complete nonsense. “Monopoly” means there is only one player in the given market or a sole producer of a given product. Can you name a product Google is a sole producer of? What service Google offers wouldn’t be almost immediately replaced by some rival one if Google is to go under? Google Docs? Yeah, right. Picasa? Absurd? Gmail? With tens or maybe hundreds of comparable free email services? And even Google main asset – search – would be quickly taken over by Microsoft and Yahoo (their searches are pretty good too). So quit this Google fearmongering, it’s childish.

By: A Very Prosaic Side Benefit of GDrive for Google « SmoothSpan Blog

A Very Prosaic Side Benefit of GDrive for Google « SmoothSpan Blog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:41:57 +0000

[...] Om Malik is on a more interesting track. He has quit worrying about whether GDrive will change the world and started wondering what’s in it for Google. After all, times is tough even at the Big “G”, so there better be some real strategic or monetary return for this GDrive thing to make sense. Om says any ad revenues are meaningless to Google from this source. They just won’t amount to much. Here is Om’s view of the grand strategy behind GDrive: [...]

By: Screen Sleuth

Screen Sleuth — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:03:22 +0000

I agree completely…any company gets too powerful, it throws the natural balance and order of things off. Checks and balances are necessary to keep things in line, and when these balances are controlled by a single source, it usually does no one much good (except the ones in power).