Comments on: Google Drive About To Launch? http://boringwill.co.uk/2009/01/google-drive-about-to-launch/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:54:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ben Copsey http://boringwill.co.uk/2009/01/google-drive-about-to-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Ben Copsey Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:04:36 +0000 http://boringwill.co.uk/?p=172#comment-18 This has been rumoured since...forever, I can't understand why it has taken them so long. S3 popularised the idea of cheap (and most importantly) unlimited online storage as service, but for some unknown reason Amazon haven't seen fit to offer it in a consumer friendly product. I guess both companies realise that the key to making this work for the mass market is strong integration with devices and applications, as you point out. mobileme (formerly .mac) gets the interface stuff broadly right, but it offers limited storage, and the last time I tried it, copying files to an iDisk was slow enough to be more or less unusable. This has been rumoured since…forever, I can’t understand why it has taken them so long. S3 popularised the idea of cheap (and most importantly) unlimited online storage as service, but for some unknown reason Amazon haven’t seen fit to offer it in a consumer friendly product. I guess both companies realise that the key to making this work for the mass market is strong integration with devices and applications, as you point out.

mobileme (formerly .mac) gets the interface stuff broadly right, but it offers limited storage, and the last time I tried it, copying files to an iDisk was slow enough to be more or less unusable.

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