Google Drive & Gmail 10GB - The battle of cloud computing - Its importance for mobile technology industry.

Submitted by manit on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 17:06
 
 

Google has launched Google Drive yesterday 24-4-2012 ,with this the cloud computing war becomes more hot.As there other players DropBox,Windows Skydrive,iCloud are already in the market , Google Drive will give them tough competition.

Google Drive is built to work seamlessly with majority of google services i.e. Google Docs,Google+,Picasa etc. You can attach pics from google drive to Google+.

Google has also increased gmail storage limit  to 10GB.
 

 

Google Drive

SkyDrive

DropBox

Free Storage

5GB

7GB  but 25GB for old loyal users !!

start with 2GB can increase with referrals & other methods

Office

yes Google Docs
very fast & powerful

yes Microsoft office
Great features - better than google but comparatively slow

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Mobile App

Android,iPhone and iPad (coming soon)

Windows phone, iPhone and iPad

iPhone iPad,Android,Blackberry

Computer App

Windows & Mac

Windows & Mac

Windows ,Mac & Linux


With the rapid growth of smart mobile devices led by iPhone-iPad & Android devices mobile cloud is becoming important.
Users like to take their data anywhere on any device. so this service with mobile application becomes very useful & have great business potential.

Features of Google Drive:
1. Create document ,spreadsheet & work in team from different places.
2. Store all data safely & access it anywhere.
3. search everything

With Google drive ,company has launched the api access for developers so that it is possible to make many application(Mobile-Android,iPhone , desktop or web) using this api.