Google Drive 10 Things: I Hate About You

Despite all these grievances, we’ll probably be back on Google Drive five minutes from now. It’s the tool we love to hate and can’t live without.

The promise: "Enable offline access to work on the plane!" The reality: Chrome uses 6GB of RAM to keep a cached version of a 2MB document. And even after you toggle "Offline" mode, Drive will often refuse to open a file unless you were psychic enough to open it while online five minutes before you lost Wi-Fi. I have stared at the spinning "Waiting for network" circle in an airport more times than I have blinked. google drive 10 things i hate about you