I've been using Google Docs for years. It's great because it means you can forget about old technology like disk drives and focus on what matters -- your document and their contents.
Old tech, not interesting. Don't build a brand on it.
Now I go to Google Docs and find it's called Google Drive. This is like going to your garage one day and finding your car has been replaced with a robotic horse. It's a backward step -- a simulation of the past rather than a glimpse of the future. Google is fumbling. Google+ is a failed attempt to compete with Facebook and Twitter. Google Drive is a backwards step. Google Play is a nonsense. It's a pity, because what we need is a platform on which businesses and individuals can build the open social web, just as Google's combination of search, AdSense, video hosting, and analytics enabled us all to build the open content web over the past 15 years. It's increasingly obvious that Google is not going to provide it.
