The GDrive Is Here… Maybe
Posted by James | Filed under Future, Geek, Web
Google’s long rumoured but never delivered online storage product GDrive (code name Platypus) may finally be on its way, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Google declined to comment on specific online storage plans aside from "storage is an important component of making Web applications fit easily into consumers’ and business users’ lives."
As it has been noted before, Google offers a number of storage options within many of its current suite of online tools, allowing users to store email, photos, office documents and blog posts. The new storage service will end up tying together some of the services through a single search box, instead of having to switch between different system interfaces (or download client-side solutions such as Google Desktop).
Pricing details for the service are not yet announced, but the WSJ indicates that there will likely be free and paid version available.
There can be no doubt that this service is one of the most anticipated tools since the GPhone, so much that is prompted a number of hacks to the GMail system to simulate the imagined functionality of the service. It is far more likely, however, that when the GDrive system does come to fruition that it will end up working a lot more like an overlay to existing file management utilities, as opposed to an extension to the local file system on the client computer.
Tags: gdrive, google, platypus, storage product
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