“Dropbox users will be able to create, open, edit, save, and share Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly from Dropbox,” the release said. SEE: Cost comparison calculator: G Suite vs. The first integration is centralized content across the platforms. However, with the high number of Dropbox users that are also G Suite customers, the integration helps Dropbox become a more unified space for enterprise content. The partnership is surprising, given the fact that G Suite and Dropbox are considered rivals in the cloud storage and collaboration space, as noted by Natalie Gagliordi of our sister site ZDNet. The partnership will play out in the form of specific integrations between tools from the two providers.
Google Cloud’s partnership with Dropbox will lead to centralized content, secure collaboration, and better communication.Ī new Google Cloud partnership will allow for deeper integration between the Dropbox and G Suite platforms, according to a Thursday press release. A new partnership between Dropbox and Google Cloud will allows users to more effectively leverage G Suite tools across the Dropbox platform. It's a perfect example of Google's inability to pay even the slightest bit of attention to anything that happens outside the Googleplex.Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways: Google used those exact same words, with absolutely no awareness that a direct competitor had already made the exact same mistake just a few months earlier. Do you take their word that they won’t? Up to you. Many of you reading this are lawyers (I know my audience), would you encourage your client to sign an agreement that says the other side has the right to do something onerous with the caveat that “I know it says they’re allowed to do it, but they won’t really do it.” This agreement gives them permission to do it. Now some of you are saying “Oh, sure, the agreement says that but they won’t really DO it.” Fair enough. The very words “distribute” and “publicly display” should be all you really need to hear. Last summer Ben Schorr provided an excellent analysis of the Drobpbox TOS:Įven the botox fanatics among you should have a raised eyebrow at this point. So Google only needs to access your files in order to deliver them to your Google Drive account on the web, phone, tablet, etc. In short, what belongs to you stays yours." You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. "Some of our Services allow you to submit content. I've now updated that post with a fresh look at the terms of service for Apple, Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, and more: Your data, your rights: how fair are online storage services? Last summer, I looked at the Terms of Service for Dropbox and its competitors. It's hard to recover trust when it's lost. DROPBOX STOCK GOOGLE LICENSE
Within days, Dropbox revised its TOS again, adding a clarifying sentence: “This license is solely to enable us to technically administer, display, and operate the Services.” But the damage had already been done. A revision published on July 1, 2011, originally contained this jaw-dropping paragraph:īy submitting your stuff to the Services, you grant us (and those we work with to provide the Services) worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable rights to use, copy, distribute, prepare derivative works (such as translations or format conversions) of, perform, or publicly display that stuff to the extent reasonably necessary for the Service. Last July, Dropbox published a revised Terms of Service.
But if you're going to clone someone else's product, maybe you could look back at that company's history and avoid making the same dumb mistakes they did?
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