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What does my area have to do with an online storage offering? I'm not giving them my zipcode.
Anyway, taking all bets on whether this doppelganger will be killed off, or whether two more doppelgangers will be launched.
After having to change their name from Sky Drive to One Drive following a trademark dispute, I think maybe Microsoft might have something to say about Google calling their online storage solution "One" as well. I mean come on, I know it's a very generic name, but it's nearly identical to one of their biggest competitors in this exact space.
> 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…
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I wonder what they mean by Google experts. Will there be an actual human being or some hybrid solution at the end of the line? Not that it matters to me as long as it's efficient.
With Google Duplex I'm sure we're heading towards a future where a computer is going to be answering all our customer support calls without us knowing about it.
Dropbox 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…
My guess is they want to collect enough data from these service interactions to eventually replace the service people with AI (or even plan on A/Bing some AIs right away to see how much people notice, sort of a crow sourced turing test).
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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.
I 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?
> It’s also rebranding these storage plans (but not Google Drive itself) as “Google One.”
> Google will upgrade all existing storage plans to Google One accounts
[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/say-hello-to-google-one/