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Google One is coming soon

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Re: Google One is coming soon

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Post by philliphaydon »

fermienrico wrote: post #23
spking wrote: post #15

After completely screwing so many of us over with that horrible File Stream "upgrade", I'll pass. I still have an orphaned local Google Drive folder that randomly stopped syncing to sort through and move to Dropbox.

Dropbox is leagues ahead of any file sharing software out there. They’re on a bright future after the IPO. Dropbox Paper is absolutely amazing.

Rather give send my birth certificate and passport to Microsoft and all other personal information than ever store stuff in Dropbox.

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Post by kyrra »

bwang29 wrote: post #9

“Be among the first to know when Google One is available in your area” made me think why they're rolling out the service based on Area? Wonder if it is due to technical reasons or demographic reasons, or it is still in the process of "beta" and needs to be tweaked more for releasing to all areas at once?

Since customer service is part of it, they probably need to staff up customer support by country/language.

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Post by askvictor »

hugs wrote: post #16
pcurve wrote: post #13

I guess they will eventually phase out Google Drive, which was actually a perfectly descriptive name. What a shame.

"Google Drive" would be a good name for a self-driving car, too, though.

Might be a long term plan. When apple rebranded iBook to MacBook, it seemed weird at the time, but they presumably had the iDevice in the pipeline (as well as their iBooks eBook system).

However, I think that One is the name of the overarching storage subscription/billing service, of which Drive, Photos and Mail (and possibly more) will consume.

Also, Drive is getting to be a bit of an anachronism (like the floppy disk icon to save). Google Storage or something similar would be clearer.

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