Can we get Family Groups enabled for G Suite accounts? My family is on a G Suite account and it is frustrating being unable to take advantage of any Family features (sharing purchases, music, etc).
Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”
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#42But... what is it?
My takeaway is a large cloud storage plan that's cheaper than what they had before.
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#43But... what is it?
Not entirely sure, but it looks like a new branding of Google Drive. Can't tell from the announcement if there's more to it than that though.
edit: Maybe more of a compilation of google apps for business with drive?
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#44I'm happy to see the 200 GB plan. I use Google Drive instead of Dropbox because I only have ~70 GB of data. Now if I hit the 100 GB limit, I can just pay for an extra 100 GB instead of having to go all the way up to 1 TB. I don't understand why Dropbox doesn't offer more pricing tiers. I'd happily switch since unlike Google Drive, they have an official Linux client.
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#45I like the pricing model, but why couldn't this just be an upgrade to Google Drive?
On second thought, why couldn't this be a $9.99 a month bundle of YouTube Red, 1TB Google Drive, Google Play Music, some Google Voice credits, and add free Google Search?
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#46Hope this leads to iCloud pricing drop.
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#47Dropbox down 4% today so far.
They introduced a second 1 TB plan for twice the price with questionable added value except for Smart Sync and their offerings with more storage space are only made for teams.
Maybe it is time for me to switch away from Dropbox?
Previously, one of the main advantages of Dropbox was their reliable sync client but this attribute is fading away: When I do many little file operations on Windows (npm, TeX Live), I expect to see MsMpEng.exe to eat away my CPU cycles. This is somewhat expected from an on demand antivirus scanner and as a Windows user it is somewhat common to whitelist some project folders or temporarily disable the AV before starting certain tasks. On macOS the same thing happens thanks to Dropbox! Even outside of my Dropbox folder their sync client seems to intercept all file operations and do some CPU-heavy calculations on them. I don't know when this started and what the technical explanation for this is but at some time the Dropbox client on the Mac started to cause a system-wide performance regression.
What is the state of Google One sync client? In the past I read some bad reports about it but after several rebrandings maybe it has matured technically?
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#48So wasabi (a Gdrive competitor) dropped their egress fees. So it's just $4.99/TB flat rate. It doesn't surprise me that google wants to change it's pricing structure.
That seem really cheap doesn't it?
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#49> free one-tap access to Google Experts for help with any Google consumer product and service. This is huge . Together with having removed ads that scanned your e-mail from consumer Gmail, it looks like Google's consumer offerings could actually be changing course from "you're the product" to "you're the customer" -- or at least be giving you the choice. Of course, you could always get a single-seat G Suite for busin…
There is always a reason for everything with Google. They didn't provide support for years. Considering what they showed lately with restaurant booking, what I think is actually happening is that Google want a huge data set for support calls/chats to use it as training data for their ML systems. Then they will present fully featured customer support product based on ML.
You're wrong. There's nothing nefarious or underhanded about this decision.
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#50We probably should get - not pay - money for donating (again) all our data to Google.