It should have been a new idea that the people could have decided if they wished to become a part of or not.  Good products don’t come up overnight and can’t be forced, but google seems to think it’s possible by throwing loads of money and resources into a project and hoping to break into the market.  It’s just not going to be that easy.  

I commend them for trying, we need more companies like them that try crazy things, but it almost makes them look bad to do something that fails so miserably after wasting so many resources on the project.  

I’m a fan of Google as a whole(not their advertising side which is a plague upon the internet but a necessary evil), but I think they’re working on the wrong products. They should get a dog in the smart phone market fight, it’s dire that they realize this.  

Something they can do is create a direct competitor to the iPhone, which would standardize aftermarket products as well, giving them even more things to sell.  Apple has what 17% of the market and yet their company is more profitable than Google who holds 53% of the market with Android which they make barely any money from.  This has to be remedied, it is a very major problem that isn’t being addressed. 

Right now all Google does is sell advertising to the world, they sell colorful banners to companies looking to increase sales, what they need to be doing is making Android the best damn OS ever created and integrating it into every facet of our lives.  Smart phones are the future of all computing, desktop/laptop/tablet’s will all be smart phones in the future in docking units.  They have to know this and they just stand by pushing new versions of Android out and let manufacturers bastardize their hard work and the public only sees the end result which sucks(touch whiz, blur, LG’s lol, sense.)

I wish one of us could sit in a board meeting and just yell this stuff at them, they have to understand what needs to be done for them to take hold of the mobile market, not just by Android’s share percentage, but how to make Android a must have for people in their lives. 

http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/20/google-share-to-drive-leaked-video-cloud-storage/ 

With Google+, they got into the social thing way late a-la Microsoft with Windows Phone.

Dropbox is not a household name. Drive could easily succeed if integrated well into Android and the desktop.

Google starts at 5 and I recently bought 20GB on Docs for $5 a year.

Dropbox is good but I have no loyalty to them. If Drive is better, I would jump ship in a second.

However, I think this service will work out for them. I know that I’ll use it for sure. I just wish they’d take down Google+.

Dropbox kinda sucks feature-wise…