Got my google drive set up today and running, just was thinking that apple already has icloud, now google has drive, dropbox and boxnet, what do you think guys should RIM work on something like this gathering best options from all these providers and building something amazing for blackberry users and non blackberry users ? or this is something that is our of RIM interest ?
One (I think) HUGE disappointment with the Dropbox app on BB is that you can't upload anything other than a photo. This Google Drive service sounds good, but is there any way I can use that on my BB 9900 browser?
I have the same concerns with all cloud services. Security and privacy.
Any reason we should trust any of these services when there's so much identity theft etc going on?
No, if you have security or privacy concerns, encrypt your data before uploading it to these cloud services. I use Dropbox every day, but they have had too many ongoing security problems to trust them with unencrypted data. SpiderOak is working on BlackBerry phone and PlayBook apps, and they provide a more secure alternative to the other cloud services. SpiderOak is a "zero-knowledge" provider. They do not store your password, and they have no way to decrypt or view your data, but they do temporarily write your password to encrypted server memory during mobile and web access sessions. Hopefully, they'll switch to local encryption/decryption and get that issue corrected.
But what about articles the past couple of days talking about the Google Drive Terms of Service? It states that Google owns the rights to whatever content is uploaded to their 'Drive'.
But what about articles the past couple of days talking about the Google Drive Terms of Service? It states that Google owns the rights to whatever content is uploaded to their 'Drive'.
No it doesn't. You've apparently never read their terms of service.
As a BB BIS customer I would love to see this from RIM/BB...
A feature rich email, calendar & contacts web based service with a BlackBerry address.
25gb (min) cloud service.
All must sync OTA with all BB devices as well as Microsoft Outlook.
Imo, this was the first of many big misses by RIM. They should have easily been able to launch their own "suite" of services back in 2005-2006 when Google's suite of Gmail, calendar and contacts was still very raw. Since RIM WAS the smartphone market back then, they could have easily pulled in consumers by the boatloads and gotten them to stick by tying them w/ their own web based service suite.
As for Google Drive, their prices are certainly better, but Google Drive is largely just Google Docs with a new name. Imo, it should still have a "beta" tag w/ it. I hope, as an Android and heavy Google user, that they continue to mesh all of their products/services well, with Google Drive amongst them (combine it w/ Google/Play Music, Play Store purchases like ebooks and movies, favorites YouTube clips, and Picassa, etc).
But what about articles the past couple of days talking about the Google Drive Terms of Service? It states that Google owns the rights to whatever content is uploaded to their 'Drive'.
I have the same concerns with all cloud services. Security and privacy.
Any reason we should trust any of these services when there's so much identity theft etc going on?
+1
(hope the sarcasm sensors dont explode xD )
It is really frightening how much data Google or Facebook are trapping and it's not just that we see adds, what they or governments (esp. Us government patriot act etc) can do with all that information!
Search on YouTube for a video, keyword pizza delivery phone order social security
This is even a light. Version of what is possible.
The best privacy type cloud service which was recommended to me was spideroak. However, they don't make a bb phone app.
They encrypt files like all the other services but they have a zero knowledge policy. You are the only one with the keys to the encrypted files. If you lose the password, too bad.
Only other alternative is to encrypt files first with another program on your computer, then load to dropbox, etc. And then hopefully, bb makes the same encryption software as an app. But I haven't found one yet.
