I noticed that the Google Drive app appeared on my Android phone last night. It looks to me like this is an update to the Docs app which I had installed. However, I am still waiting for the email confirming my Drive account
Right now, photos and videos are stored using Picasa Web Albums (which offers 1GB of storage), music files are stored in Google Music (which offers storage for 20,000 songs which can easily be over 100 GB), documents are stored in Google Docs/Drive (which offers 5GB of storage) and many other files are stored in Gmail (which offers 10GB of storage).
This very much reminds me of the Google of past, with silos of independent products which barely interact or talk to each other. I thought Larry Page was supposed to change this? Instead of mostly just a re-branding of Docs, Google Drive should have been the place where you can find all your files, the great unifier.
Coupled with with the fact that Drive looks like the most "me too" product I've ever seen out of Google, with its lack of Linux client, I couldn't have been less impressed by this product.
Sorry, I only just realised that HTC had replaced the default Gallery on their latest One series with their own version of it.. which allows you to browse Dropbox/SkyDrive shares.. I will have to ask them if they plan on snapping in Google Drive.
I'm not a paranoid type... happy to have my photos, music and email scanned and used for targeted marketing.
However, the one thing I would be a little nervous about is if I keep my financial records (or will, or legal docs) in files that are synced with GDrive, would those be scanned and used by Google for "promotional" purposes? e.g. Would I be getting junk mail from brokers saying "We note that you have $1,972.15 invested in cash... please give us your money so we can lose it ALL for you!". And "We note that you have no car listed in your personal assets... we'd love to sell one to you!" And "We note that you just got married and are trying to get your wife pregnant. If you are having trouble we'd be happy to offer you IVF services for 10% off!"
I have read the ToS and Privacy statements, and they are a little fuzzy around this point. Some plain English clarification would go a long way to dispel the fears that are floating around the internet.
e.g. "All documents that are uploaded to Google Drive will be scanned so that you can search them. But documents marked as Private will never be used for promotional purposes."
"Scans of email and documents in Google Drive that are not marked private will note recurrence of words that will help target marketing. But we will not do second order scanning of phrases and sentences. Not ever."
Nope. The overall policy with Drive remains that as soon as it goes onto thier servers it becomes tied to all of the terms & conditions that they outline. Their service, their rules sadly :(
I would assume that whether it is grandma's cookie recipie or your financial ledgers they wican and will be using your data as they see fit.
Nice work Guys! I noticed that Google Drive Sync does not use rsync / delta file copy protocol? So at the moment, everytime a file changes, it re upload / downloads the entire file.
Do you know if there is any intention of this in the future?
Is there any way we can install multiple Google Drives on my desktop? Because I got one Google doc account for all Online resources and another one for personal documents.
Just login to https://drive.google.com/ with your Google account and there is a link at the top of your Drive account for Download Google Drive for PC. This will let you sync your Drive to your PC.
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I noticed that the Google Drive app appeared on my Android phone last night. It looks to me like this is an update to the Docs app which I had installed. However, I am still waiting for the email confirming my Drive account
When can we expect a Drive app for iOS?
wow, this is great, now we got skydrive, box, dropbox and Google drive, wish I could use these spaces for web hosting,
Hi Simon, you can use the Drive app as-is. You don't need your Drive account enabled.
When your Drive account is enabled you'll get a quota upgrade to 5gb and a link to download the Windows / Mac app.
It exists internally (I have it on my iPad) and is nearly complete. We're saying "a few weeks".
The iOS app wasn't quite ready yesterday and we made a decision to launch the product rather than delay launch for the iOS app.
Try Google Sites.
Right now, photos and videos are stored using Picasa Web Albums (which offers 1GB of storage), music files are stored in Google Music (which offers storage for 20,000 songs which can easily be over 100 GB), documents are stored in Google Docs/Drive (which offers 5GB of storage) and many other files are stored in Gmail (which offers 10GB of storage).
This very much reminds me of the Google of past, with silos of independent products which barely interact or talk to each other. I thought Larry Page was supposed to change this? Instead of mostly just a re-branding of Docs, Google Drive should have been the place where you can find all your files, the great unifier.
Coupled with with the fact that Drive looks like the most "me too" product I've ever seen out of Google, with its lack of Linux client, I couldn't have been less impressed by this product.
Great work guys! It's good to see more of this innovation coming from Google in Australia.
Is there future development for "Drive" to show up in the Gallery, like Dropbox, SkyDrive etc all do?
And the Linux app is coming when?
:) no timeframe at this point.
I'm not sure what you mean. Can you explain?
Well done, Google Sydney — from another proud Aussie!
Sorry, I only just realised that HTC had replaced the default Gallery on their latest One series with their own version of it.. which allows you to browse Dropbox/SkyDrive shares.. I will have to ask them if they plan on snapping in Google Drive.
But, great work on this app :)
Thanks very much. Great step forward.
I'm not a paranoid type... happy to have my photos, music and email scanned and used for targeted marketing.
However, the one thing I would be a little nervous about is if I keep my financial records (or will, or legal docs) in files that are synced with GDrive, would those be scanned and used by Google for "promotional" purposes? e.g. Would I be getting junk mail from brokers saying "We note that you have $1,972.15 invested in cash... please give us your money so we can lose it ALL for you!". And "We note that you have no car listed in your personal assets... we'd love to sell one to you!" And "We note that you just got married and are trying to get your wife pregnant. If you are having trouble we'd be happy to offer you IVF services for 10% off!"
I have read the ToS and Privacy statements, and they are a little fuzzy around this point. Some plain English clarification would go a long way to dispel the fears that are floating around the internet.
e.g.
"All documents that are uploaded to Google Drive will be scanned so that you can search them. But documents marked as Private will never be used for promotional purposes."
"Scans of email and documents in Google Drive that are not marked private will note recurrence of words that will help target marketing. But we will not do second order scanning of phrases and sentences. Not ever."
Nope. The overall policy with Drive remains that as soon as it goes onto thier servers it becomes tied to all of the terms & conditions that they outline. Their service, their rules sadly :(
I would assume that whether it is grandma's cookie recipie or your financial ledgers they wican and will be using your data as they see fit.
Nice work Guys!
I noticed that Google Drive Sync does not use rsync / delta file copy protocol?
So at the moment, everytime a file changes, it re upload / downloads the entire file.
Do you know if there is any intention of this in the future?
Is there any way we can install multiple Google Drives on my desktop? Because I got one Google doc account for all Online resources and another one for personal documents.
Thanks.
Just login to https://drive.google.com/ with your Google account and there is a link at the top of your Drive account for Download Google Drive for PC. This will let you sync your Drive to your PC.
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