Dropbox vs Google Drive: differences that matter
I know this is a bit old already, but I hope someone from Google reads my post and they do something about it (I wish).
So let me summarize this, I have:
– 50GB Dropbox account for $9.99 a month
– 100GB Google for $4.99 a month
– 47GB used in my Amazon S3 account ($7.99)
– 25GB Skydrive which is free… but I hate and never use… even for free
No question about it, Dropbox is superior in everything, except price (S3 doesn’t have really a UI, I use CloudBerry Explorer)
Here are my biggest complaints on Google drive:
– It crashed and I had to re log in. Now it doesn’t let me select the same folder and it tells me I need to select an empty folder. Dumb Google Drive… Dropbox lets me select an older Dropbox folder and it automatically checks if files there are newer or older
– So then let’s outsmart Google Drive. Select an empty folder and drop all the files! It worked with the first versions of Dropbox anyway! I was wrong…. Dumb cannot be outsmarted!
Now I have an extra 45 GB of stuff and I hogged the office’s internet connection!
Google: great price, but please pay attention to these two very important details. I am pretty sure the devs that worked on this had a 1 Petabye connection right into the google drive source storage. But regular people don’t….
I cannot agree more. I had the same issue and I tried the same steps, but all failed. I am giving up on google drive. These days Google is only worried about duplicating existing online products and not worried about the quality.
Google drive #fail 🙂
Same for Google+, “good” idea but bad execution.
Just like Microsoft, who apparently wants to become now a hardware company like Apple with the Surface, screwing up their partners like Dell, HP and others. They are also going to kill Nokia as no one will buy a Lumia as I heard it will not work with Windows 8. Or perhaps that’s the plan, bankrupt Nokia and then buy it.
And have you visited a Microsoft store? This will be my next post I think.