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Re: Google One

#51

A lot of people are saying the page is really busy. Visiting on mobile (Firefox) this is probably one of the quietest landing pages I've seen: A logo A headline Two short sentences A sign up box A note saying that paying customers will eventually automatically be upgraded. That's it. No pictures. No movies. No backgrounds. No parallax. No nothing. Did they completely change the landing page since this was posted 20 m…

Hmm it looks quite different here. Lots of pics, etc.

Re: Google One

#52
post #10

I'm confused. What is it? A storage bump? Paid support? A discount plan? A consolidation of all these offerings from different places into one home? This is such a bad landing page. I have more questions than answers.

Why not actually read the page? Google One includes 100 GB storage Access to Google experts Option to add your family Extra member benefits

I did read the page, the point I was raising was that the page left me with more questions than answers.

Re: Google One

#53
post #10

I'm confused. What is it? A storage bump? Paid support? A discount plan? A consolidation of all these offerings from different places into one home? This is such a bad landing page. I have more questions than answers.

Why not actually read the page? Google One includes 100 GB storage Access to Google experts Option to add your family Extra member benefits

If you aren't in one of the small number of supported regions, you can't see this information. In Hong Kong, we just see a page that says "Google One is coming soon. Expanded storage, access to Google experts and more – in one shareable plan. Be among the first to know when Google One is available in your area."

Re: Google One

#55
post #48
post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're trying to discourage large amounts of data in a single account, probably because the solution is currently engineered to scale in O(cN), where c > 1. Can't think of any other reason. If the engineering scales O(logN), you'd see linear pricing as a way to make a killing in bulk.

“Never attribute to big O notation that which is adequately explained by an Excel error.” —- some razor

Lacking any data it's better to start with the face value that is given to one.

Re: Google One

#56
For those wondering, this is Google Drive's paid plans, but it has undergone a rebranding to emphasize Google's ecosystem. I can think of some reasons why this might be a good idea:

1. Your storage in Google Drive is actually not used only by what's on GDrive, but includes your emails and Google Photos. So it is more correct to deemphasize the connection to GDrive.

2. This is a good first step to unify Google's paid B2C services that it may want to offer, especially since G+ is being discontinued.

Re: Google One

#57
post #30

Everyone is so busy asking "what even is this?" that they're forgetting to ask the more typical question about a new Google product - "will this still be around next year?"

The primary benefit that this is based around (increased account storage space) is unlikely to go anywhere anytime soon.

Re: Google One

#58
post #4

That landing page was too busy and did a weak job at selling what "one" was if it's really more than a cheaper drop box. Expert access for $1.99/mo? Huh?

I am really wondering if there is any person on this whole planet who visits the page and thinks: "Wow, I want that!".

Re: Google One

#59
So looking from a single private user's perspective: Google One has best pricing, but no Linux native client and Dropbox has Linux native client and no flexible pricing.

Re: Google One

#60
post #31
post #7

For a moment I thought it was going to be another chat app. Instead it's... something? A one sentence description at the beginning of the page wouldn't hurt...

It seems to be google drive but with paid support.

That seems unclear. You get access to google ‘experts’, but they don’t sound like employees to me.
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