Google Drive, or Gdrive, is said to be launching in early April. Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) storage-and-sync utility will go head-to-head with Dropbox, box.com, SkyDrive, and who knows how many other similar services. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it's too little, too late.
By Richi Jennings: Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention: TBA...
Om Malik listens to his deep throats:
[A]fter a long history of false alarms, [it] might just see the day in early April, according to my well placed sources.
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The rumors of Google's Gdrive first emerged in 2006 and then in 2007. ... Nothing came of those rumors. Two years later, same story. ... In 2010, Google announced that it would allow you to upload documents and files to Google Docs. [Last month] the rumors started again.
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Google, of course is not talking...we don't comment on rumors or speculation. ... Google's product will come with a local client and [a] web interface. ... [It] will launch for Google Apps customers...as well. Google has also built an API for third party apps. 
Adam Mills adds:
[W]e've already seen screenshots of the service...confirming that the product is, at the very least, being prepped for launch.
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[It] appears that the service...will finally be making it to the public and it will be interesting to see how [it] stack[s] up against the competition.
Vincent Chow eats his words:
Technically, Google Docs is Google's de facto cloud storage service, for a wide variety of file types that could be uploaded. However...it's too bland to compete with the likes of Dropbox, which...make[s] file uploading an effortless and automated background process.
But Lucian Parfeni ain't impressed:
Another week, another Google Drive rumor.
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But the most interesting stuff in the latest rumor is...it seems that Google Drive will come with 1GB of free storage...[which] will mean that the company with...one of the biggest if not the biggest and certainly the oldest clouds out there...is dead from the start, Dropbox comes with 2GB by default and most people have a lot more than that, via referrals for example.
And Matt Shaw agrees:
Although Google's paid [storage] prices are incredibly cheap, it seems as though they'd need a large free limit to...draw customers away from...competitors. I'd always imagined it would launch with 10GB.
And Finally...
TBA
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Richi Jennings is an independent analyst/consultant, specializing in blogging, email, and security. He's the creator and main author of Computerworld's IT Blogwatch, for which he has won ASBPE and Neal awards. He also writes The Long View for IDG Enterprise. A cross-functional IT geek since 1985, you can read Richi's full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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