Doh. You can tell I am an IT person. You say performance, I think 'How Fast'. I have never seen the file transfer problem because I never use it. When I take content up and down, I have always just cut and pasted it. The one time I tried it, it was to upload a huge OpenOffice document, and it coughed up a hairball on that. I assigned it to being 'Beta', reported it, and went back to cut and paste.

Another thing I have seen floating around is the Docs has some offline operation code built into it, and so the whole thing about needing to be connected to work with it may soon be a thing of the past. it is easy to see how file transfer could be tied up in such code, as they work out the dock / undock file sync processes. Or it could just still be a bug. Main thing is to report it so it gets fixed.

The price Google paid seems high: I look at how easy it is to put up a web page with a Java or flash based video player, and load content up behind it, like what SciFi/NBC are doing right now, and it would seem that Googtube is pretty vulnerable. On the other hand, YouTube is the go-to place for video content. Most of us know it and love it. If I need to catch up on something like say "The Colbert Report", and my stupid DVR is having brain freeze like it often does, where do I go? well there and iTunes...

If Youtube / Googtube stays the cultural phenom it has been, then someday we may look back at it and marvel at how cheap they got it.