"This is something we expect people to use with high utilization a lot," Pichai said That's because Google expects much more active use, with data being sent to and from multiple devices frequently. That's more expensive than the existing Google prices for overflow storage space at Picasa and Google Docs, which can be had for $50 a year for 200GB compared to $210 for Google Drive. (Or, if you're feeling like pushing the envelope, there are other tiers including $50 a month for 1TB and $800 a month for 16TB.) Dropbox's free tier ends at 2GB (unless you cajole your friends into joining with your referral code), then jumps to $9.99 monthly for 50GB or $19.99 monthly for 100GB. I use Dropbox often, for example saving a PDF of my airplane boarding pass and a subway map when I'm at my computer, then pulling them up on my mobile phone when I need them even if I'm in a foreign country without my usual wireless service.īut Google outdoes Dropbox by giving you 5GB of capacity for free, 25GB for $2.49 a month, or 100GB for $4.99 a month - via Google Wallet, of course. It's very useful, as Dropbox users can attest.
"We want you to think of this as the center of your Google apps experience." "You can take all your data, regardless of which device you're on, and make it seamlessly available to you," said Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Google's Chrome and Apps projects. On my Android tablet, though, you'll need a network connection to actually see the files behind the file names. If you copy or save a new file to the folder, or if you upload one to the Google Drive site online, the technology automatically replicates it at all other Google Drive locations. That device gets a special Google Drive folder that synchronizes its files with a mirror stored online.
Google Drive, at its core, looks a lot like Dropbox: you install software on a device running Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and "in coming weeks," iOS. That's a pretty big philosophical shift for Google.
0 kommentar(er)
