Discussing about GDrive on Techcrunch

Michael Arrington posts about rumours on the upcoming Google product called Gdrive where it will host user's data and will have the option of making online copy (copy of the file on Google's Server) as the main one and that on the box as the cache copy. I think it is a interesting idea and very usefull indeed to the general public who really does not care so much about privacy (and let's face it, Google is not going to open up each and every file and read into it personally. Google is also not interested into seeing the assignments you make for your university or your tax return files). Now let's see what the personal files can comprise of. It can be Word,Excel,Powerpoint,Access and other office format documents. It can be pictures, music files, small video files etc. etc. I think the files which should be uploaded should be those which can be easily downloaded on the other end and I can start using it. Now I don't think anybody would like to upload their 1.2 GB PST (Outlook Email File) onto Gmail drive just do download the same at the other end. So I think there will be limitations on what kind of files one will be able to upload and may be about the file size as well. I think this would be also be the best time to either integrate Office Applications feature within Google or develop their own. I am sure there is a majority of people who primarily use Word documents or Excel Spreadsheets on a daily basis. I speculate that there will be some limitations on the space they allocate to each user as well. And if users get unlimited space on Gdrive, then there is a issue as well. Think of GB's of data copied on to the hard disk on a daily basis and GB's of data copied back to Google Servers! Bandwidth is cheap in US or European countries, but it is still not very much affordable in even countries like Australia. But overall, where is all this leading? This is leading towards a system where we will be more reliant on our web based systems rather then Desktop based systems. How much difference will it make to a non geeky normal and casual computer user who is going to use web based system for all his needs if he uses Windows XP or the latest version of Windows Vista? The world is running after web based applications and systems these days. I have hardly seen too many interesting desktop based applications these days compared to the flock of web based applications I see. Looking forward to Gdrive though. I can definately use it to store my backup copies of important data which can be accessible from anywhere,anytime and no matter what the platform is. Will you use it?. But before that I am still waiting for Google Calendar!!