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Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by drusepth »

sjs382 wrote: post #118
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #89

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Anecdotally, I've been extremely unimpressed with Google's Fi / Nexus / Pixel support. I had a Nexus phone on Fi that -- while I was holding it in my hand texting -- it went black and never turned on again, for no reason. I assumed the battery died -- even though the UI displayed that I had most of my battery still. No, it completely bricked. Coincidentally and non-conspiratorially, it might've been ~2 weeks after my…

I am a Project Fi customer that bought a Nexus 5X through them. After abotu 16 months of use, I ran into the well-documented "bootloop" issue that went along with these phones. They replaced the Nexus 5X with overnight shipping. I experienced the same issue with the replacement device about 2 months after the original warranty expired. They replaced it out-of-warranty, with overnight shipping, for free. Each time, I…

This is actually the exact experience I had, although I got 2-day shipping since they shipped to Ireland for me the first time, and Croatia the second time. It was exceptionally good service that I've yet to see paralleled anywhere else.

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Post by pnloyd »

Something1234 wrote: post #172
pnloyd wrote: post #161

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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.

You can check the bands on https://willmyphonework.net. looks like sprint is a no go. :-(.

Getting one of these phones in the US comes with other risks as well since your importing g from China. No warranty for one. Little you can do if the phone is delivered to you in some defective state. I only have full 3G coverage with AT&T. That said other experiences I've read on Xioami's phones have been largely positive. Really cannot stress how amazing of a deal the MI A1 is. Feels like a spiritual successor to the Nexus line.

Re: Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

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Post by corobo »

lainga wrote: post #99
donald123 wrote: post #90

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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. And there is 'Android One', which is designed for low-end devices, it would really confuse people when they talk about android one, google one. I can see more people will refer it as "google one drive", and microsoft also has its "One Drive", that's even more confusing to all the average users.

It's probably reactive: "Prime" -> "One".

Not to mention everything Microsoft is One now. One Drive, Xbox One.. that's about it really

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Post by corobo »

politician wrote: post #84
yodon wrote: post #82

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Perhaps it’s partly a rational defensive move in case the GDPR wreaks havok with the ad-based web ecosystem? I’m looking forward to reading whatever Ben Thompson (stratechery.com) has to say on the undelying business model implications

It'd be an interesting turn of events if Google is signaling that its adtech business is flattening (in Europe / due to the GDPR) and is moving to monetize its customer services directly.

They're also now requiring billing data be attached to any accounts using their APIs (Google Maps notably in my case)

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Post by brocket »

fragmede wrote: post #25

https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-go... currently says 6 years 20 days and 1 hour since Google claimed a Linux client is coming.

I've been using https://github.com/odeke-em/drive for awhile without issues, originally written by a Googler. I've also heard good things about insync.

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Post by ethbro »

clhodapp wrote: post #189
ethbro wrote: post #136

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I think the general resistance to doing away with ads is related to revenue ceiling. Ad revenue at Google / Facebook scale is a magic money box. In that they can tell Wall Street (and deliver) ever increasing monetization per user. Once they start directly charging users, they can't increase that invisibly via "better" ad tech anymore. Any increase is directly passed on to the consumer. AND ceiling just became users…

Interesting insight, thanks!

The irony is that the whole game is not that different from the mortgage backed security products that torched the world.

The market's a lot smaller, but it looks a lot like the same information asymmetry that led to more and more complicated instruments being created and sold (in what was at its base a game of trying to push leverage).

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Post by Walkman »

blackoil wrote: post #197
Walkman wrote: post #171

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.

It is multiple times replicated across geography, and available anywhere. So it's more than a disk.

I agree, but pretty sure that 90% of the average users doesn't need geo-replicated safety. It's nice to have, of course, but does it worth it? You can buy a couple of HDDs for multiple backup copies and it's an order of magnitude cheaper.

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Post by [deleted] »

josteink wrote: post #107
olyjohn wrote: post #103

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Try telling that to Microsoft.

Why? They have world-class service with real people, real responses and more often than not, real solutions. On the phone, in minutes. At least for partners. I haven’t had much experience with regular end-user support, so I won’t make any bold claims about that.

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