Google Drive for Android: Just About as Good as the Rest



When a company like Google uses a tagline that includes the words "share anything" for a Drop-box like cloud file storage system, my immediate reaction is "with whom?" Google, after-all, is a company that's made its money delivering ads based on what it learns about our habits. 


There's been debate about this very question since Drive launched, and media reports have suggested, based on the Drive terms and conditions, that Google is claiming to license Drive users' files. 

Google denies any evil intentions, because cloud-based storage systems need to have some kind of license to hold and display our stuff -- that's why it needs the license. 

In any case, Google needs to be pretty transparent about what it intends to learn, if anything, from documents, images and videos that it's entrusted with. 

I'll leave this question to legal experts for now, who will do a thorough job finding out what the deal is, and get down to a thorough review of the app.