In the last week alone, LogMeIn has unleashed Cubby and Microsoft finally brought SkyDrive to OS X Lion -- and we’ve still got a launch for Google Drive coming this week, if a mountain of evidence is to be believed.
The Verge has been sniffing around Mountain View’s various and sundry web pages in search of hard evidence that a launch of Google Drive is imminent, and they’ve turned up a number of compelling bits and pieces. Should you truly want to believe, we could see Google Drive fire up its engines to the masses later today, so strap in and hang on for the ride.
The first bit of evidence comes courtesy of Reuters, who filed what appears to be a confident report claiming that Google Drive “could be announced as soon as Tuesday” -- as in today, April 24 -- offered with both free and premium for-pay versions. Everyone gets 5GB free as rumored previously, “while various versions with incrementally more storage capacity, topping out at about 100GB, will be available for monthly fees,” one source reveals.
Next, Verge readers called in to note that their Google Docs storage capacity appears to have gotten a bump from 1GB to 5GB overnight -- something we have confirmed on our own account (as shown above). Finally, a reference to Google Drive has turned up on a Google support page, which states: “In the new owner’s Google Drive on the web, click the Upload button to see the amount of storage used/available.”
We don’t know about you, but it all sounds like Google may be firing up Drive for a spin around the block sooner than later -- we’re just hoping this isn’t going to be another one of those painful “wait for an invite” scenarios like Google+, so don’t get too excited just yet, folks…
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