According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is closer than ever to launching the company’s cloud-based storage service that will rival now established services like Dropbox and Apple’s iCloud. In fact, it could be available in just a few weeks.
Like Dropbox, which offers various tiers of online storage for your files and documents, Google will offer a standard free account, though specifics on how many gigs of data you can upload without paying aren’t known just yet. However, if the data cap on the free account isn’t sufficient for your needs, a paid version will also be available, with Google aiming to undercut the cost of existing cloud based services.
And unlike Apple’s iCloud which caters to the company’s iOS devices, Google’s cloud storage services will not be exclusive to the millions of Android devices on the market. Instead, like the company’s other services, it will be easily accessible on a wide variety of devices, including the iPhone and iPad, Apple permitting of course. [WSJ]
Hesh
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:48 AMhang on a sec..
we’ve got google docs – you can store anything you want
music – you can store all your music
gmail – obviously..
hows this going to work
richard
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:50 AMNothing rival’s Icloud. Icloud it the most poorly executed storage solution ever. Oh, i can only save documents i have created with apple software? I cant put other stuff on it?
Come on. Mobileme, even though you had to pay for it was ideal, and now they havecompletely screwed it.
I am now a dropbox devotee. Icloud will not darken my stroage needs until they fix it
David
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 10:13 AMYou’re missing the point of iCloud (and iTunes Match for that matter)
Apple is attempting to remove the file storage system. Given that it’s free you can hardly blame them for limiting it to their own software.
I use dropbox to complement iCloud so that all my important files are stored on the cloud.
Luke
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 10:18 AMI thought Google Docs was basically their cloud storage. I’m confused and agree with the first comment.
Daniel
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:17 AMFrom a conference I went to late last year I got the impression this would further expand upon google docs and possibly takes it place in the future. I currently use iTunes Match Service for my music, while storing all of my documents in dropbox (managed to secure up to 11GB of space now)
Kendal
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:15 PMThis is the mythical GDrive, rumoured (and generally considered as potentially awesome) many years ago right…?
Andy
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 3:53 PMI just use Gmail as cloud storage when I want an additional remote backup. Fits most files I deal with…