Google is planning to launch another product called G Drive, concept is to store all the data online and access your data from anywhere in the world through your PC or any other PC connected to Internet.
Will you accept to store your all your data online, yes if you trust Google and its security, some may say no. Now the question is will this service be free and if free, how will Google be able to make money from this service. Will they be serving ads, or will they be limiting the free storage limit to some GB’s and after that you may be asked to pay a monthly subscription or you may have to pay for a ad free version? All these are guesses, but I am sure Google will come up with something which will be affordable for a common user. Google already has products like Gmail for emails, Google Docs for managing documents, Picasa for image editing and storing images online, YouTube for Videos. Anyway its not really going to kill the desktop, will Google will have applications to open all the files like an Autocad file. Gmail has now offline feature enabled which could be one step for the G Drive.
The Wall Street Journal said that Google could "shift tack or shelve plans for the storage offering" if it couldn’t successfully deal with the issues of "data privacy, copyright [think sharing], the economics of adding storage capacity and the technical challenges of offering service without interruption."
Google’s also reportedly trying to make the widgetry directly accessible from Windows, feel like a local hard drive and apparently make search transparent across Gmail, Docs and Picasa Web Albums storage Source – http://weblogic.sys-con.com/node/821846
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I think its not good to store all my data on a “Google-Drive”. Google knows too much about me. G-Drive is good for Google but not good for a free web.