I have a 32 TB machine sitting under my desk. It will return it's cost in less than a year. Storage is very expensive in the cloud.
Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”
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I am really surprised so many people are stuck on Android One. I doubt any of the people here use an Android One phone. And those who own an Android One phone AND potentially can get confused between the names, do they even care what Android or OS is running on their phones? I feel people who are specifically looking to buy an Android One phone are savvy enough to know the difference. Disc: Googler.
I use one. I was blown away by the value of the 220$ Xiaomi MI A1. It's nice to know that I can move between some options for manufacturers to get the best value for my budget, and also expect a consistent experience.
Do you know if that phone will work on sprint? I'm having a great deal of difficulty finding a good phone. I don't want to buy directly from the carrier to do the high volume of bloatware sprint seems to love to install.
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> They're going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription This makes me sad, as it's my primary gripe with Amazon Prime. The only Prime service I actually use is free 2-day shipping. But they keep lumping more and more stuff in there -- video streaming, movies, photos, music, etc -- and the price keeps going up. Sooner or later it's not going to be worth the free 2-day shippin…
The flip side of not bundling, is nickle-and-diming. Other bundling services, like Spotify, or Netflix, are way more cost effective than having to make micropayments to a bunch of separate services. Consider Newspaper subscriptions. Would you rather separately pay $X/month to New York Times, WashingtonPost, The Atlantic, The Economist, etc just to read a few articles, or would you rather pay $X/mo to Texture or a Spo…
One of my favourite benefits about bundling services is that it can more closely align the platform operator's incentives with my interests.
For ad-driven sites, it becomes crucial to keep viewers engaged as often and as long as possible. Every second spent on Facebook is another shot at an ad impression, every video on YouTube another chance for a pre-roll ad. Cue Facebook's notification spam and YouTube's autoplay.
In a bundled service, the incentives shift. The provider's revenue will stay mostly constant, as long as they can demonstrate enough value for me to maintain the subscription. I might still get the good parts (next episode in a series autoplays), but I'll be spared the clickbaity follow-up video that autoplays because there wasn't any other related item.
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#174> Google already offered 24/7 support for paying business users with a G Suite account, but this is the first time it actively offers live support for consumers. About fucking time. I know so many people who will never purchase another Google product because it's was literally impossible to get another human being on the other end of the line.
I've actually had great experience with Google Express support (when it was a subscription service; haven't needed to call support since it's gone free.)
I think Google's mostly got bad support for services (particularly free ones) whose scaling relied on near-zero marginal cost, and that is because scaling support isn't cheap even if scaling the underlying service is.
OTOH, if their storage charges are enough above costs to support the support burden for their consumer products for a customer, rolling consumer support into their storage plans resolved that scaling issue.
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#175With storage it always seems that the devil's in the details. Are there any upload/download caps in place? Are they documented? Are they scanning it? Downsampling it? Checking it against some DMCA database? What happens when Junior shares his Bluray rips with his buddies at school? Are they blocking rclone? How about 6 months from now? Net neutrality is toast, caps are the norm and they're closing the service in 6 mo…
1) Yes, 750GB upload limit a day. Not sure about download. 2) no 3) No 4-5) Maybe? Nobody I know who does this has been caught
I know of people getting caught pirating on Drive, but it was for stuff publicly shared where either the IP owner found it or had it reported to them from another user.
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>because I dont know if it really works Sounds like you have your answer?
No, I havent used the service. I dont think its fair to make a conclusion without having evidence.
No, the reason is that you (and other people) don't know if it works. Trust in a brand can be a big factor in supportable price.
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#177Why is "One" so popular? A lot new buildings in my city has this word as well.
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> If this is really the case, then I would say the name sucks. It's hard to know what 'Google One' means from just the name. It’s also hard to know what "Google" means from its name. And "Windows". And "Bing". And "Facebook", "Twitter", "WhatsApp", "Amazon", "Yelp", "Pocket", "Chrome", "Firefox", "Safari", "Uber", "Steam", and many more.
I guess what I meant by "hard to know" is less confusing. All the names in your example cannot be easily confused with other product or brand. But "Google One" is the other way around.
I think it’s only because they’re well known. "Amazon" could be a supermarket selling organic food; "WhatsApp" some site to recommand apps; "Facebook" another site to make books out of pictures of your family; "Uber" and "Bing" pretty much anything.
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#179But... what is it?
It's the existing paid extra Drive Storage that (despite the name) provided storage from Drive, Gmail, and Photos.
It's being rebranded to separate it from Drive.
And they have firm plans to make it family-shareable soon, and less firm plans to bundle other ancillary benefits with it down the line.
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#180Not seeing the updated 2TB->$9.99 plan yet in Europe :/ Wonder whether this is just for the US?
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