Monday, January 27, 2014

OneDrive

So, here is the issue:

Microsoft renaming SkyDrive to OneDrive because of copyright issues is what it is: an attempt to escape a legal problem. That is acceptable. 

But OneDrive? What does that even mean? The two words don't say much together and tell very little to anyone who has never heard of it. 

iCloud = Apple product ("I") that is cloud based.
Google Drive = 1. Google product. 2. "Drive" is still a bit vague and isn't the best name, but after a thought or two you put together that it is Google's hard drive for you. 

On the less intuitive level you get something like Dropbox - it doesn't say anything. But it is catchy. It flows. Take a few extra thought steps from Google Drive and you get that you, "drop your files in the box."

I feel bad for Microsoft here. 

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