Google Drive

“it'd be hard to call those various services (Google Drive, Google Play, etc.) anything other than successful.”

“Drive is fine, given the spirit of the license. It's merely inconvenient.”

“was only able to rescue it using the Google Drive backup”

“they don't really want power users who use their whole quota, so they don't make things like command line / API access easy.”

“going back to Google or onedrive just so I can use sheets or excel”

“less optimal for my needs, because their js oauth implementation is very conservative about token length”

“Google is loved for the things they built (GMail, Search, Drive, K8s”

“Recently and frequently opened documents always show up on the first screen as soon as I open the app or website.”

“It tells me I should have a real hatred of any files being in the root directory, and completely disregard sharing and permissions boundaries.”

“I ended up switching to Google Drive's $2/month plan and never looked back at Dropbox”

“With Dropbox or Google drive you can "stream" only the files you need.”

“My musician friends still use dropbox and google drive to push around files to each other”

“enables new agentic capabilities that were only possible with coding agents”

“Google Drive/iCloud/OneDrive/etc. are already used by non-technical users and would work fine.”

“Along comes Google Drive and Docs and now you can edit your document everywhere”

“it even has Dropbox or Google Drive integrations that work out of the box”

“Things work just fine elsewhere (Dropbox, Google Drive, Nextcloud, and Seafile are all solutions I've had good experiences with).”

“WhatsApp suggests unencrypted backups to Google Drive by default”

“It is small, but if you look at their competition it's still competitive.”

“Google drive pricing is cheaper than S3/Google cloud storage for storage.”

“It gives me the ease of having access to a giant amount of files stored in my gdrive”

“Google Drive files you can sync to local disk via the Windows or Mac app.”

“it works flawlessly with google drive and my nextcloud instance”

“the vast majority lack the interconnectivity that makes services like Drive and Gmail so useful”

“They have really amped up the ferocity of the language they're using to try and extract money from you for Drive.”

“Google Drive has a beautiful API that is used by everything from the Google Drive desktop client to rclone”

“it comes with a couple terabytes of Drive storage for the family”

“all of these systems have version history and document recovery built in”

“Google Drive doesn't have super granular permission structure to be able to set up a partitioned directory for the app alone”

“iCloud Drive and Google Drive preserve all of that information and the accompanying Live Photos, and depth information.”

“The built-in integrations (iCloud, Google Drive) are smooth right up until you’re locked out or forced into changes you can't control.”

“Totally reasonable thing. Google should have an appeal process where a reasonable human can look at it”

“I prefer to have everything online all the time anyhow - just safer and more convenient.”

“This has never happened to me in more than 5 years of paying for Google Drive.”

“if you have a third party storage service like Google Drive or Dropbox, they also show up as location in Files”

“every time I open a PDF in Google Drive, it forces an AI summary of the doc with no way for me to switch it off”

“Imagine the metrics though. "this quarter we've had a 12% increase on people using AI solutions in their google drive"”

“the barriers here are way to weak/fuzzy for me consider granting access via any account with private info”

“No, I'm not going to give access to my privately stored file share in order to view a prompt someone has shared.”

“I turned off the "smart" features and the only thing that changed is that the nag box still pops up and shifts the UI around”