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Re:Early access to Proton Drive is here by b1476 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:09AM (#25123299)
I’ve been a very happy ProtonMail customer for a number of years now. My only complaint, like many other people, is the wait for these new products to be released. I’ve been using the new UI since it was released, however it’s still in beta (I can’t even remember what the old UI looks like at this point). I’ve tested their calendar which seems great, however still beta (with no mobile apps which make it fairly useless in my use case). I’m keen to try Drive too however I don’t want to get sucked into another tool that will likely be in beta for a long time to come.

I realise part of this is myself (and many others) being a bit too eager for them to release these products, however I do wish they’d focus their efforts on a single product and give it a short beta phase before full release as opposed to teasing various products that take forever to be released and not marked as beta.

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Re:Early access to Proton Drive is here by nicolas_ on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @09:39AM (#25124187)
Same here. I think it's a good idea to create an ecosystem around the Proton brand but not at the expense of its major products. Mail and VPN are pretty good on desktop for my usage but Contacts, Calendar, and now Drive are in alpha mode missing the things that would get a lot of user to do a proper switch from its competitors. I wished they'd focus more on a few produtcs at the time and not launch dozens of them with the bare minimum of features and no mobile apps.

To their defense they did release a lot of things to help create that ecosystem (SSO, bridge, mail v4 beta) but I think the drive launch should have happened after having Mail and Calendar out of beta with proper apps.

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Re:Early access to Proton Drive is here by burntoutfire on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:25PM (#25128422)
On the other hand, how long was GMail in beta? 10 years? And that's from a company with unlimited funds...
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